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WELCOME
AT A GLANCE
OUIDE
T9 help you find what you want
quickly and easily, this is a cross-
rgrgrgncQCI Net of all the products
and subjects covered in this
month's Amiga Shopper The
subjects covered in Amiga Answers
are detailed on page 32; the many
PD programs covered on page 139
are listed there. The page numbers
given ar^ for the first page of the
article in which the subject is
mentioned.
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AMOS
82
AMOS Answers
82
ARgaa
67
Arguments
67
Assemb er
56
Back issues
106
Beginners' advice
24
Buying guide
152
C programming
126
Clip art
75
Colourpic Plus
57
Command parsing
67. 82
Communications
102
Competition
154
Daatscan hand scanner
70
Dot matrix printers
14
Fonts
57
Hypertext
89
Inkjet printers
14
Internet
102
Laser pr nters
14
Letters
12
Listings 56, 67. 78, 82,
89, 126
Mail order offers
121
Mandelbrot set
78
Music
113
News
7
Next month
154
Price changes
7
Printers
14
Product locator
148
Public domain
139
Puzzle games
75
Reader ads
81
Sampes
113
Shareware
139
Spreadsheets
95
Subscriptions
106
Talking Shop
12
US News
11
User groups
133
Vidi Amiga-12
57
Workbench 3
89
World Of Commodore Show 7, 11
Are there any products or
subjects you'd like us to
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Shopper. At last, it's mine, all mine, I'm
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control... (snip - Prod Ed.) Take the new A1200 for
instance - a helluva powerful machine at a superb
price. If you've just got one of these - and
according to Commodore there are plenty of you
out there who have - then your mind must be
boggling with the possibilities. That's where we
come in: we show just what you can do with your
machine, and how to do it.
If you /lai/ejust got your first Amiga, then you
Should turn to page 24. Our special Beginners'
Guide will put you in the picture. You'll be
surprised at how versatile the Amiga actually is.
But our main feature this month is a complete
guide to buying a printer, starting on page 14.
We've put no less than 20 printers through their
paces. Different people require different things
from their printers, so we've made sure we've
covered all the categories - dot matrix, Inkjet and
laser - and the comprehensive feature chart at the
end of the article will ensure that you buy the
w^iBftM""
YOU SHALL HAVE A FISHY
There are thousands of Amiga programs which are
available for little more than the price of a disk. And
many more which allow you to try the software free
before you buy. Each month in Public Domain World
we examine the best of these programs and explain
how to get hold of them.
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This month we focus on the latest batch of
utilities in the Fred Fish collection, and take a look
at a program that could improve your computer
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drawing skills. Public Domain World or
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If wishes were fishes...
as we call it this month, starts on page 139
printer you need to do
the job you want, at the
price you can afford.
With Commodore's
flurry of launching
activity at the end of
last year, and talk of
even more new
machines, 1993 looks
set to be a good year.
Peripherals are already
on the cards for the
A1200 - expect a flood of developments in the
very near future. You can be sure that we'll be
keeping you up to date. We're committed to
ensuring you get the best out of your Amiga,
whether it was built in 1984 or last week.
Enjoy the issue!
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Editor
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Amiga computing, answers more genuine reader
questions than any other Amiga magazine. And
from this month they'll endeavour to correct the
errors In any programs you send In as well!
We answer questions every month on
Workbench • The CLI • Comms • Programming •
DTP • Video • Business software • And more!
THE ANSWERS START ON PAGE 31
FOR A FULL LIST OF CONTENTS, TURN THE PAGE
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the World Of Commodore show in Toronto
Talking Shop
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The liveliest computer engenders the liveliest debate
Printer Round-up 14
Dot matrix. Inkjet or laser- we rate them all. 20
printers are tested to the full to_ enable you to make the
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Video
Two video digitisers at opposite ends of the price
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ARexx
Get to grips with the Amiga's bundled multitasking
programming language. This month: passing arguments
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Desktop Publishing
The scanner war hots up with the latest incarnations of
the DaataScan and Alfascan Plus hand-held units. We
compare them and discover which is best for you
Education
75
Spruce up your presentations with some high quality clip
art PLUS a look at some educational puzzles
Cliaos
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An exploration of the fascinating world of fractals, this
month focusing on variations of the Mandelbrot set
Reader Ads
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This is the place to look if you're buying or selling second
hand Amiga kit
AMOS
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How to create text adventure games PLUS solutions to all
your AMOS problems
AmigaDOS 89
A look at some of the flash new features of AmigaDOS 3,
Including a powerful hypertext utility
Business
95
Set up a spreadsheet to predict your electricity and gas
bills - no more unpleasant stiocks!
Communications
102
Discover what you can get from the limitless zone of
electronic communications with our look at the Internet -
a vast network of computers from around the world
Amiga Music
113
Samples from all over the world in Walkabout Music's
collection PLUS sample storage techniques explained
Public Domain World
139
All the latest in the PD and shareware scene. This
month there's a round up of the latest shoal of Fred
Rsh disks, and a program that teaches computer
graphic design with Deluxe Paint
C Programming
126
Rise from the humble beginnings of a novice to the
heights of proficiency with the language of the pros
User Groups
133
You're an Amiga user; you want to join a group; so turn to
the User groups pages
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Your at-a-glance guide to the best In Amiga hardware
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Epson LX400 9pin 119
Epson LQ570 24pin 265
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£199
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Phoenix rom sharer 24.35
Kevb'd operated rom sharer 24.95
VXL30 25MHz Accelarator ..239.00
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£2099
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Dot pitch 0.42mm. Medium Res.
£165
with cable
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without cable
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A 500 Dust Cover 4.70
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A500 ffiplacement PSU 39.00
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PERSONNEL
CHANGES
Dave Green, a serious- looking soul,
takes over as Production Edftor of
the magazine that's serjous about
your Amiga
Ttwre's been a couple of personnel
offices this foonth.
The first is ihat Alison Harper, our
erstwhile Production Editor, has left to
work on another magazine. She is
being replaced by the lean, mean (but
perhaps not as preltyl form of Dave
Green. Dave says: "While all our
contributors are of course infallible,
sometimes bad people sneak into our
computers and plant extra characters
In our files to make us look silly. It's
my job to root out these so-called
"typos', thus making the reading of the
magazine a pleasant and patnless
expenence for aH of you.'
The second is that Dave has left
to 'Test in a special hospftal" ,.,no.
only kidding, the second is that Andy
Storer, who has left to edit a brand
new magazine, has been replaced as
Editor by Cliff Ramshaw.
CHEAP HARD
DRIVES
Software Demon is selijng what It
claims to be the cheapest hard drives
around for the A1200,
The pnces for the different sizes
of IDE drives are as follows: 20Mb for
£110. 40Mb for £180. 120Mb for
£260 and 240Mb for £450, The
reason for the low cost of the drives is
that they are the more common 3.5-
inch drives. Software Demon has
developed its own cabling and fitting
procedure to connect these to an
A1200, As a consequence, the drives
cannot be user-fitted. They may be
Ijoughl pre-fitted in an A1200< or
alternatively you can send your A 1200
to the company and, for a fee of £19.
Software Demon will fit a dnve for you.
All drives have an access time of
14ms or less, and are supplied with
software to fnstafi Worlibench 3.
Software Demon w 0736 331039,
Hellcs Software has
released Chiidsplay. a word
processor aimed at children
aged between 2 and 12,
The idea of the program
Is to make learning as creative and
fun as possible. To this end, it is
highly graphical rn nature. Chjfdren
can manipulate pre-defined graphic
blocks as i' they were letters,
creating a multi-layered effect with
words on top of graphics. The pre-
OetineO graphics may be altered or
added to with blocks from any
standard iff picture.
As children type words into this
educational program, it will say them
out loud in one of three voices: male,
female or robot. There is also a
facility for the program to speak each
letter in a word, or to recite a whole
passage of text.
As well as providing the facility
for chiWron to type In words,
ChtMspiay a\sa comes with a preset
WORD PRO FOR KIDS
list of words, any of
which may be selected
VI o ihc mouse and
added to the mam text.
In this way children
are able to improve
their vocabulary.
A number ot pu7zTes
can 3lgo be creared by
an adult in Criildspiay. A
bloc k-onenled Jigsaw is
one eiiiample; but more
sophisticated puzzles
such ac; pattern-
matching games can be
implemented with the
system's iwalayer graphics and te;^t
approach.
ChiWspWx costs £24,95 from
HQltos Software « 0623 554828.
ffllBJIB
Bright, colourful graphics ami
computer^generatfid speech add
educational appear to Helios
Software's Childsplay
A600, A 1 200 and A4000 offkially described as 'consumer' machines
More new Amig
The recent World of Commodore Show in Toronto
proved the spawning ground for rumours
concerning yet another new batch of Amigas.
A Commodore official was apparently heard
descnbing the A600. A1200 and A4000 as
'consumer' Amigas, implying that a number of
professional' level models are to be introduced
with specifications hrgher than that of the A4000.
It seems likely that these machines will be
the host of the enhanced AGA chip set discussed
in last months news pages. New facilities are
aojd to inclutfo o 32 bit bllttcr, 24-bit true colour
display and buiH-in trame grabbing, it's likely that such
moGliinu^j will hdrc CDROM drives ruled di ^Idnddro.
A Digital Signal Processor TDSP) is also expected to
make an appearancCn givfng much improved CD-quality
sound with real-time special effects. Announcements were
also made concerning an add-on DSP for the A4000, as
well as a SCSI-ll controller and new variations on the
A4000. See the US News on page 11 for the full story.
Speculation is still nfe concerning a mid-range
machine, popularly referred to as the A2200. with
The A4QQ0 IS a hot machine, everyone agrees, but
could Commodore be launching a whole range of
machines with even higher specifications?
specifications similar to the A1200 but with greater
expansion possibilities and a separate keyboard-
Commodore UK's KeHy Sumner has strenuously denied
the existence of a machine called the A2200. Then again,
in Amiga Shopper Issue 17 he denied all knowledge of a
machine called the A800, just before the A1200 (with a
very similar spec to that rumoured for the A800} appeared.
POWER BOOST FOR A 1200
Microbotics has launched a maths co-processor upgrade
board for the A 1200 computer.
The board, called the MBX1200, includes a 68881
maths co-processor clocked at 14.3MHz. which provides
up to a 55-times speed increase on floating-point
operations. On average, an A1200 with the board installed
will return a result eight times faster than an unexpanded
A1200 using the AIBB benchmark, A 68882 CO processor,
clocked at 25MHz, may be used instead of the 68881.
The board also has a SIMM socket for up to 8Mb of
32bit RAM. This additional memory a utocon figures as Fast
RAM, considerably increastng the A1200'S performance.
The MBX1200 fits the A1200 internally, plugging
directly into the 150-pin edge connector. Speed-hungry
A1200 owners will also be pleased to hear that the board
is fully compatible with AmigaOOS 3.
ntted with a 14MHz 68881 and no extra memory, the
MBX1200 IS expected to be in the region of £120, while
the version with a 25MHz 68882 should sel.l for £180.
Shop around for the best prices.
The MBX1200 is dislhbuted in the OK by Taurus. It is
avarJabie from Calculus w 0543 414939 and other
dealers, including the First Computer Centre, who can be
reached on tr 0532 319444.
AMIGA SHOPPEft • JSSUf 23 • HBftUARY 1993
E.W S.
.1" ^ V^"^^
HARD DRIVES READY FOR NEW AMIGAS
Tnlogic has cinnounct^d iug arrival of a
range of IDE hard drives suitable for
use with Itie A600 and A1200.
The Urrvca dte all 2.5 IncHea Tn
size, and fit internally. They come
fearty lormaned and with a connecting
cable, making ihem ready to use as
soon 05 they have been fitted.
The drives are available m the
follfiwiAg ^iiA^: 20Mb for £119.9Q.
40Mb fo^ £1139-99. 60Mb for
£199.99, 80Mb for £24999 ar>cl
120Mb for £349.99. TMlogiC can be
reached on n 0274 691115.
And don't forgel to look out for
next month's Amiga Shopper, wvhich
will be carrying an in-depth article
describing exactly how to choose, fit
and use just such a drive in ytxjr
A1200orA600.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Crys^a^ Concepts has announced the
availability of a help video for would-be
comms users.
Called How To Operate A Modem,
the video explains how to set up
communications software, log on to
bulletin boards and download files-
Advice is also given on the use of the
numerous file archiving programs
currently available.
Packaged with the video is a
directory of 150 bulletin board
numbers, the comms program NComm
2. the directory utility SlD and two
archivers: PKAnpar\6 LHArc. Buyers of
the package will also Oe eligible to a
free three-month subscnption to a UK
bulletin board. The package costs
£26.95 plus £2.00 p&p from Crystal
Concepts -a 0942 523387.
Fraiify of sterling brings price iaaeases across complete Amiga range HELP FOR
VDU
Prices are set to rise across the entire Amiga range, it
has been confirmed by Commodore,
The move comes as a result ot the Tailing value of
the pound in the international market. An increase of
£30 will be added to the stand-alone A600, the two
A600 bundles - the Wild. Weird & Wicked pack and the
Epic pack " and the stand-alone A1200. Other products,
such as hard drives and CD-ROM drives, wilt be subject
to a price increase, but the amount is not yet finalised.
The move is scheduled for the beg^nnl^g of January.
Commodore is reluctant to make it: "It may yet not
happen," said Commodore's Andrew Ball. When asked if
the prices would be reduced once the pound regained its
strength, he replied: "as soon as we can."
Obviously the move will affect sales, but coming as it
aoes in Uit irddUlondlly blach po5l-Cnrisimas period. Ehe
upheaval should not be too great.
The recession hits the Amiga, with price increases of
£30 on bundles and stand-alone models
ORM
Um IMF
Question: What have a penguin
and a 01-6500 colour scanner got
In common? Answer: They both
appear In an Epson pubHclty shot
A super-charged version of Epson's
A4-sized flatbed colour scanner has
been released.
The GT-6500 offers a number of
advantages over its
predecessor, the GT-6000.
Both are full colour (up to
24 bits per pixel)
scanners, capable of
dealing with images up to
A4 in size. The GT-6500,
however, has a much
improved mawmum
resolution of 1200 dots
per inch in line-art mode.
Also- scanning operations
themselves are now much faster.
The GT-6500 is available with a
SCSI or parallel port interface,
although the Amiga driver software
currently only supports the parallel
port version. This software is actually
a loader module for ASDGs
acclaimed Art Department
Professional image processing
package, though it will also be
available as a stand-alone package.
Two extras are currently available
for the GT-6500. The first is a
transparency adaptor, which contains
a second scan head and enables the
device to take scans of slides,
transparencies and reflective
materials. The second is an
automatic document feeder^ which is
interided pnman^y for bulk optica!
character recognition work.
The GT-6500 is distributed in the
UK by HB Marketing -a 0753 686000
and retails at £938.83.
Epson UK can be contacted on
' 0442 61144.
OPERATORS
^e Health And Safety Executive has
released a book explaining the steps
necessary to comply with the
European Community Directive on
display screens.
The Directive comes into force on
1 January 1993. It is designed to
ensure the health of people whose
employment regularly brings them in
contact with computer monitors.
The main points are that
employers will be required to assess
workstations and reduce any risks
found; employers must ensure
workstations meet a set of minimum
requirements: that screen work must
be planned to provide breaks: and to
give eyesight tests to employees who
request them.
The book, Display Screer)
Equipment Work: Guidance On
Regulations, is available for £5 from
Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
THE
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MegageM has anrxmnood vsrslon 3
of Its ScapeMaher program. The
utility wilt take an IFF format image
and convert it to DEM format for 3D
rendering with programs like VistaPro
and Scenery Amma for.
ScapeMaker 3 is compatible wtth
a\\ versions of Workbench, It will
process 258 by 258 and 514 by 514
point DEM files, and wiM display two
DEM buffers in 16 shades of grey.
Control is achieved by a push-button
interfacen keyboard shortcuts, menus,
and ARexK or AmigaDOS scnpts.
ScapeMaker 3 costs $64.95 plus
postage from MegageM -^ 0101 805
349 1104.
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program comes with a seven day money-back guarantee.
The only way lo really appreciate Digita software is to
use il Phone 0}'9? 2702"3 for more infomijhon, or write
to Djgita. FREEPOST, Exmouth EX8 lY?.. All pnces
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NEED SOME EDUCATION?
A f>ew fOFige of
7 year-olds Is due to
arrive from Luroprcsa
Softwaren a company
that prides itself on tts
educational reieases.
ThP ADI Junior
range initially consists
Junior Residing and
ADt Junior Counting.
costing L25.99 each.
TFl(J Two n^(^)<H^^5
AvtAr^A ihfi ctin^nf AOI range, which
deals with Maths. English and French
Two enthusiastic youngsters get to
grips with the ADI Junior range
for 11-15 year olds. All programs
comply with the requirements of the
National Curriculum.
There are 15 puzzles in ADt
Junior Reading, geared towards
teaching the child how to match
pictures la words, how to distinguish
between true and false statements,
and how to recognise symbols and
plurals. Three levels of difficulty can
be seiectea for each puzzle,
ADI Junior Counting also features
15 puzzles. Using bright colours and
sound, each of these endeavours to
teach the topics of addition,
subtraction, variances, painting by
numbers and the matching of figures
lo numbers.
Europress can be contacted on
■a 0625 859333.
Major US manufacturer GVP is set lo
support the A1200 with a number of
new peripherals.
Although fluctuations of the
pound have prevented any prices
from being fmalfsed. development is
well under way, with the products
slated for release within the next
month or so.
First up is a an accelerator card
to fit In the A1200's trapdoor
ejtpansion slot. It will come with
00030EC piULcabui clucKcU m
40MMz and space for an additional
maihs co-pfuceb^or. Up to 32MD oT
32-bit RAM can be added onboard
using 4Mb SiMMs, The board should
deliver a performance comparable to
that of GVP's A530 combined hard
drive and accelerator. The price is
expected to be in the region of £399,
Another trapdoor product -
meaning that fitting will not void
A1200 owners' warranties - is a
combined RAM expansion and SCSI
hard disk controller card. The card
will be populated with 4Mb of 32-bit
RAM, and have a slot for a maths co-
processor. The SCSI controller
should Quell the fears of many who
felt that Commodore had made a
mistake by opting for the slower^ less
flexible IDE hard disk interface. The
price is again expected to be in the
region of £399.
Also from GVP is an internally
fitting JDE hard drive, which shouid
be available by the time you read
this. With a capacity of 85Mb it will
fit either an A600 or an A1200,
GVP's Faaastprep software wiii be
included in the price of £399.
GVP are on* 0101 215 647
6147. Its products are disinbuted m
the UK by Silica « 081 309 1111.
MORE ART SNIPPETS Update to
C compiler
Artworks has released
three new disks of
original clip art.
The disks, costing
£6,99 each or £18
for all three, are
Marriages are
made in heaven
but marriage clip art is
made in South Humberside
titled as follows; Prehistoric Life.
Weddings & FamHy Occasions, and
Signs & Symbols 2. A poster is
included with each disk so that the
user may see at a glance what images
are available.
All the images have been hand
drawn, scanned and then cleaned up
using painting software to provide high
quality results.
Artworks can be contacted on
n 0469 588138.
I DIDN'T SEE A MOUSE
A Uansparent mouse, sure to merge unobtrusively into the surroundings of a
cluttered desk, has arrived from Spectravideo.
The Datalux mouse has a vanable resolution of 100-200 dots per Inch,
and costs £22.99. Contact Spectravideo on v 081 902 2211.
An update has been released lo the
SAS C Compiler. It wiH take version 6
of the package up to version 6.1.
The update comes in the form of
a freely-dfstriPuiable archive,
available from t>ulletin boards around
the world.
Users need to already have
version 6 to make use of the archive,
which fines a number of bugs in the
previous version and adds some
minor enhancements such as
support for public screens.
SAS can be contacted on v
0101 919 677 8000. Its products
are soTd in the UK by HiSofl< who can
be reached on « 0525 718181.
G-FORCE
SPEED
BOOST
GVP has announced a method by
which owners of its G-Force040
accelerator can increase the
performance of the board,
Mt that is required is a simple
adjustment of the startup-sequence
(it seems fashionable these days to
descnbe hug fixes as 'added
features' - Ed). The firve reading
GvpCpuCtrl >t\\\ FastROM should be
changed to read GvpCpuCtrl
>nn:FastROM MoveSSP. GVP are on
ff 0101215 647 6147.
ANOTHER
PD CD ROM
Almathera Systems has released the
second disc in its collection of public
domain CDs.
CDPD II is compatible with the
CDTV and A570 CD-ROM drive. On it
are the contents of Fred Fish disks
661-760, the Scope library, JAM
disks and AB-20 archives. The
addition of an automatic copier
brings the disk's size up to nearly
600Mb. Last but not least are copies
of both Workbench 1.3 and
Workbench 2,04,
CDPD 11 costs £19.95 from
Almathera Systems. Phone them on
fl 081 683 6418.
MINE OF
INFORMATION
Information seekers will be
interested to learn of the release of
the seventh edition of the Directory
Of Information Sources.
Aslib's directory lists almost
7000 sources of information. 8oth
organisations which give information
freely and those which charge for it
are listed.
At £250, the book will mainly
interest the dedicated researcher.
Aslib are on * 071 253 4488.
CORRECTION
Contrary to our claims In last
month s magazine, Dr Is fun
music program Soom Box \n
fact costs just £39.95. It's
available from Zone Distribution
on f 071 738 5444.
I A AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 23 • FEBRUARY T 993
u s
E WS
ee^hawT It's your Amiga
Cowboy, temporarily giving
up the flatlands of the USA
for the windswept and
snow-covered urban tundra of
Cfiniidfi. Thf [at^iit Wurld ot
Commodore Amiga Show opened to
on cnthu^Jo^tic crowd uf Atniga rans
damouring for a look at the latest
hardware and aoftwaro goodies.
OF THE FUTURE
P^rhapc; the most news *as gleaned
twm fty^ri^^flfing a conversation
between Commodore officials.
According to my spy
(take Uila 06 gospel
folks, &ut you know
my epy ItUea hie rum
and coke), the Zorro
III SCSI II controller
and documentatmn
sre nnw romplete. It
snouia Uc dvdiidDie
in January, with a
transfer rate of .*^^^^^^«
lOMD per !^etont]
when connected to a SCSMI drive.
That should que" a few of the
criticisms the A4000 has been
receiving on this side of the Atlantic.
what shoufd also help is the arrival
of a Digital Signal Processmg chip,
which is apparently scheduled for
release \r\ late spring, alor^g wjth
corresponding 3.1 device support, II
is a 32-bit AT&T chip offering
potential for items such as 16'bit CD-
quality sound, vojce recognition, and
titgh-speed modem support.
"a 32-bif AT&T chip
offering potential
for... 16-bit CD-
quality sound"
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Professlonat Page 3 may have only
Just arrived, but It^s soon due to be
superseded by version 4
The next three months will also
see the release of three further
configurations of the A4000. As you
know, its processor plugs in on a
card, so Commodore producing
versions with different processors
has always been a likely possibHity-
Expect to see an EC030-based
A4000, 35 well as one based on the
standard 68030. A lower model is
also on the cards - the words
'A4000T' and 'February' were
mentioned in the same sentence.
My spy also reports overhearing
a Commodore official describing the
A600, A1200 and A4000 as
members of a consumer' Ime-up. He
went on to say that a second series
of machines would t>e released to
become Commodore's professional
Amigas. Quite what these new
machines will contain is anybody's
guess, but the rumoured enhanced
AGA chip set seems like a good
guesSn and perhaps Motorola's
forthcoming 68060 will make an
appearance. How'd you like to be a
third party hardware developer lry;ng
to cope with all
^^^^^^^^ this massive Hood
of information?
There was lots
more to see at
Toronto. Gold Disk
\r\c announced
Professional Page
4.0^ AX the lop o( a
long Irst of new
features is support
for the Advanced
Graphics Architecture chipset.
Bitmapped images can be displayed
on screen using up to 256 colours,
giving users the benefit of true "What
You See iG What You Get' viewing
and more exact on-screen proofing.
DTP GRAPHICS BOOSTED
other outstanding new additions to
this popular program include an
Improved hot linked graphics editor,
enhanced graphic handling with new
graphtcs import fillers and improved
text handling. These
improvements to an
already popular and
apuHi powerful program
^ further promote the
versatility of the
Amiga to a North
Amenca at present
largely dominated by
Mac and IBM PC
page layout systems.
Among the more
unusual uses tor the
Amiga on display at
the show was Sign
Engine, a desktop
sign shop based on
the Amiga, Parallel
Motion Graphics Is
the name of the company that offers
this useful and unique product. Sign
Engine vid^ designed and engineered
for professional sign shop use. so it
should find itself right at home in
places tike vehicle^letailing shops,
retail stores' display departments. TV
stations, exhibit builders and just
about anywhere else that sign
making might be required.
SIGN OF THE TIMES
The program operates on any Amiga
with 3Mb of RAM, a floppy drive, a
hard drive and a vinyl cutting plotter
such as those made by Amencan
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'Amiga Covi^boy' Bob
Liddil takes a trip to
Toronto for the World
of Commodore sfiovy;
and tracks dov/n the
hottest nev^s around
Graphtec. loline, Roland, and
Houston Instruments-
I saw this one m action and it
was positively neat - signs were
typeset m Pagestream and carved
out of sheet vinyl with sharp cutting
blades taking the place of pencils on
the plotter. In less time than it takes
to rope a calf I had the words
^AMIGA COWBOY' to put on my
saddle so I d know which horse was
mine in the parking lot. At $559 this
vertical application
is priced well. Just ^^^^^^^^^
add Amiga and
plotter /cutter and
blammo, you're In
the ^\gn business.
Contact Jeffrey Ginn
at Parallel Motion
Graphics, 10
Stewart Court,
Orangeville, Ontario,
L9W 3Z9. Dang
clever folks, those Canadians!
No North American show would
be complete without 3D graphics
programs and Toronto saw its share.
Pixel 3D Professional {PixPro for
shorl) is said by its producer. Axiom
Software, to be "the most powerful
3D object utility program available."
PixPro can be used to convert bitmap
pictures and shapes to 3D objects
"with unrivalled quality," This is one
of those logt^tweakmg prt^rams for
the art and video professional that
can take the word Cowboy" and turn
it every which way but loose in a
dazzling display of manipulation. I
saw a demonstration of the program
in action and rf I could get my
branding iron to do that kind of work.
"the most
powerful 3D object
utility program
available"
I'd have a seriously cool logo on my
cows. How about 'AMIGA' in an
upscale font with curves and
shadows, and 'COWBOY' in a macho
block style, all done up in contrasting
shades of pastel turquoise and
raw hide 'J Yes!
For those craving information,
the staff ot Ama;;n^ CompuUng
Magazine released this year's AC'S
Guide to the Commodore Amiga. This
invaluable 287-page publication is a
useful tool for
^^^^^^^^ anyone who needs
a comprehensive
listing of Amiga
goods and services.
It features guides to
graphic artSn
desktop video, word
processing, desktop
publishing, music,
^^^^^^^ programming,
utilities, and
entertainment software, as well as a
wide variety of hardware, including
accelerators. Video Toasters, drives
and memory expansion. I thoroughly
recommend this for anyone who
needs to know what's being offered
for his Amiga. Tt's top notch.
If anything can be said about this
year's Wodd of Commodore in
Toronto, it's that it was very very
cold, but that was just the outside
temperature- Inside the iniernational
centren the Amiga was hot. hot, hot.
Here's your Amiga Cowboy. mak<ng ■
tracks for the border, shouting
"Whoopie-ty-yi-yea" and hoping a
ain't snowin' in Texas, 'cause me
and my Amiga are heading south for
thewir>ter! CD
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 21 • FEBRUARY W93 1 1
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pages! - the ^lA6><m^r^ you get the chance to
-speak your fhih'd. So join your host, the editor. Cliff
Romshaw for sofrte niOi% no-holds barred
l«intfcHi%;^iitf i^Mbfer; rfy^ have to do to W
jiiduded is sM your i^Usivy fo:
'Talking ^Jd^'^Mm^^liOpfmiS^, Mo^
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OFFICIAL COMPLAINT
We recently purchased Mini Office
as a result of reading your review.
So faf we have only really
Investigated the word processor.
but we have already found a couple
of annoying problems.
The first, though minor. Is that
the program does not aLlow for
double spacing, which seems to be
a fairly standard facility on most
other word processors^
The second problem ts more
annoying: if the capltd Iw^h b u^ed
H does not just affect the letters. It
\s Impossible to enter any nufnber,
comma or even a full stop without
releasing the capital lock-
My son wishes to use the word-
processor for school projects and
frequently uses capital letters so
this second problem Is the source of
great frustration.
When we contacted the supplier
we were told that we should have
read the reviews. We did read yours
but it didn't point out these
problems. So It looks as though we
shall have to battle on and try not
to take out our frustrations on the
machine.
Anonymous
01 si Ingham, Suffolk
Son7 to hear you're not happy with
the program. A solutior^n Though not
entirely satisfactory, to your" first
pomt is simply to press [Return]
twice at the end of every line.
We try to make our reviews as
complete as possible, but are
rwvBftheiess dealing with a limited
amount of space. There are no doubt
other aspects of Mini Office that
were not mentioned In the review.
Our reviewer chose to meition those
points he felt were most salient.
Unfortunately, he didn't bother
mentioning the two points thai are
Important to you, because be judged
F«*«
dispatched today and you will get It
tomorrow" (eight days ago); "I will
get someone to call you back" (still
waiting): and "you will have to ring
ouf other number to complain".
t have written and still received
no reply or computer. The company
was obviously making promises It
could not keep.
My message to your readers is
"cheapest Is not always best".
Make sure a company has what you
want in stock before ordering
Gary Reld
Redcar, Cleveland
A sad but not entirely unique tale,
Gary, and your advice to others is
certainly worth heeding. Incidentally,
we're starting a new column, Amiga
Advocate, in which we seek the
advice of a solicitor to sort out the
hassles some people have had with
manufacturers and retainers.
THAT COVER DISK
I have purchased every issue of
Amiga Shopper \o date, and In my
opinion It Is one of the best Amiga
mags for Information, and certainly
the best value for money. You have
just ruined the latter case!
I foad with dismay that you
intend to supply a cover disk with
future Issues, which in my opinion Is
the worst possible thing you could
do. If I wanted to buy PD I would
choose my own disks; I don't want
to be forced to buy PD of someone
else's choice. If you want to enter
the PD market, why don't you
advertise it and let people make up
theJr own minds?
AW Thackray
Dunstable
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Mini Office found favour with our
reviewer, but has at least one
unsatisfied customer to Its name
them to be irrelevant to the needs of
most potential Mini Office users.
MAIL ORDER HASSLE
I purchased your magazine to look
for the best deal for an Amiga 600
with 1Mb and no software,
I found it: £254.95 plus
delivery^ I placed the order, but my
goods have still not arrived. The
company's ^hot line' rings
unanswered or engaged most of the
time. So much for "newt day
express service".
On the three occasions I have
spoken to someone at the company
1 have been told: "It will be
but on the other hand...
It is good that you have
r:^^SSai»:t added a cover disk to the
magajtine. making Amiga
I Shopper even better value
: for money. I was
particularly pleased to see
that you maximised the
contents of the disk by archiving,
and did not waste space by making
the disk auto-boot^ng as most other
magazines do. However, I do feel
that you could have made the
process of urvarchiving the dish
more user-frlendly.
The actual content of the first
disk was excellent, and I will
certainly look forward to future
disks If you are able to maintain
that sort of standard. Please stick
to complete PD or shareware
programs, rather than demos of
commercial products. A good
collection of programs on a single
disk saves having to buy several
normar PD disks.
Gareth Kitchener
Shefford, Beds
So. opinion is divided on the matter.
Interestingly, MrThackray's ietter
arrived before publication of the
cover dish issue, whereas Gareth
clearly decided to wart and see it
t>efore commenting. The point about
ease of un^rchiving has been noted.
I think the cover disk is a good
thing, and if enough readers agree,
then we'll continue providing them.
The aim, as always, is to produce the
best possible magazine.
I'm certain that next months
dJsk will convince the sceptics
among you. Without giving too much
away, it's going lo he tied very
strongly to our editorial content in a
way no other magazine has tried^
essentially emending the magazine's
medium. As well as PD and
shareware utilities, there'll be loads
of source code listings to save you
typing, and a special set of files
linked to an article explaining
Assembler For Beginners.
THE HORROR
I was horrified to read Kelly
Sumner's comments on the Amiga
In Issue 17. and, after visiting the
Future Entertainment Show. I felt
that I must write-
Surely Ketly should not be
promoting PCs for use in business
Instead of the Amiga. Many
manufacturers make PCs. so the
chance of someone buying a
Commodore PC Is slim, whereas
someone who wants an Amiga has
to buy It from Commodore, Kelly's
statement Just shows the lack of
commitment of Commodore to the
Amiga.
What topped It off was seeing
the two Commodore stands at the
Future Entertainment Show - a
games stand containing A600s and
1200s (showing Just games) and a
business stand containing
Commodore PCs.
A walk round the other stands
(HKh as GVP and Digit a) showed
Amigas with genlocks, word
processors, 24'blt graphics and so
on. with PC owners watching In
disbelief.
I was also disgusted to read
Kelly joking about the A3000's
price drop - 1 certainly wouldn't be
laughing if I had Just paid £3000.
then watched as the price fell to
£1200. Commodore just doesn't
care about Its customers - this and
the price drop of the A600 prove it.
Paul r^arkham
Stone. Staffordshire
If Commodore wants to succeed in
the business market, then it has to
manufacture PCs. Most large
corporations would never buy
Amigas, no matter how powerful or
cheap they mjght be. The PC is an
established business standard - it's
as simple as that.
I II AMinA <:H(^PPFt» A ISSUE 11
lARY 1003
L E TTmtR'S
Commodore's commitment to
the Amiga is very strong - recent
events have proved this, o^^'Cularly
in the multimedia arena. As for the
A.^000 pncp drop, It e v^ry much a
iwo-fidgfid Gword: some people
beoeft, some don't, I think Kelly
ju^^nfied the price changes
Odoauately. and surely you'll allow
Jilin i(j crack s take?
TH£ CHOICE IS YOURS
FDllowinc your review of the
SupraFQAModcma. your rcadcra majr
llhc to know th^t Out? la tiprfrritan
and the fact that there are many
Ffrst Choice re1<iller« scattered
throughout the land, The First
GhuiQc Computer Centre (Leeds) is
now trading as The First Computer
Centre (Leeds).
Brian Cotiley
The First Computer Centre (Leeds)
Thanks for putting us right. Brian.
SOUND ADVICC
It'fl ttme l6r Commodore to release
a 16-blt 16-channei sound chip with
froqucnckes up to 56 KH£> A 40 MHz
DSP 56002 (rather than a DSP
56001) and IG-bit internal D/A and
16-bit internal A/D converters
would be suitable, AJI these should
uwilJy nt in an A4000 or A1200.
In 1987 the Amiga, with its
fimaving internal sound capabHIties,
was taking over the music market
from Atari, fiovt W Is over seven
years since the Amiga was the best
music computer, which is now the
Atari Falcon. Where wMI Commodore
go from here?
I hope Commodore wlW show the
real power of the Amiga in the
music market again, by including in
future machines the sound facilities
I hAv6 daacribed above -
H9lge Kaulholm
Norway
There's certairtly no argument about
the supenority of the Falcon in the
sound department. Talk at the
Toronto World Of Commodore show
about a DSP chip (made by AT&T, not
rvlotorola) suggests that Commodore
intends to redress the balance. It's a
shame such a chip couldn't have
been fitted as standard on the
A1200, but \ think Commodore was
Heen to keep the price down to give
it as wide an appeal as possible.
CASH FOR COMPUSERVE
Whilst finding your Xomms' article
both interesting ar>d useful I felt
that I had to come to the defence of
CompuServe, which you described
as "very expensive".
Under the standard pricing plan.
you pay onJy $7,95 per month for
unlimited access to a large range of
facilities. Including electronic mall,
fax-sending, airline bookings. maH'
order shopping, news and financial
information services. The cheapest
way to access it Is vfa Mercury to
either the London or Reading nodes,
avoiding P5S surcharges, and with
the option of 9600 baud at a cost of
only 4-6 pence per minute cheap
rate. There is no communication
surcharge in non-prime time (7pm to
6am and weekends). In addition an
0800 number is provided for free
assistance. Overall, it compares
very favourably with BBSs such as
Prestel and CiX which have much
higher subscription fees and
monthly minimums.
Although It has a very strong
American bias, particularly for
shopping (though many companies
deliver to Europe), it Is widening its
range of UK-oriented information. A
larger UK base would no doubt
attract more UK businesses and
information providers.
Roger Houghton
Selsley. Gloucestershire
OK, how about if we describe it as
"fairiy expensive"?
THE WAY AHEAD?
I've owned the same Amiga for over
five years now (the same one), a
good old 1.2 A 500 with which t^ve
t>een extremeJy pleased despite a
few minor niggles. Now Tm looking
to upgrade, but the choice isn't as
easy now as It was way back then.
Commodore's new A 1200 Is, I
admit, a very capable machine at an
attractive price, but is it a real
advance in Amiga technology?
Recently the Amiga magazines
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Cottection Votume t was the cause
of some controversy
seem to have been defending the
Amiga against the PC-console-
Falcon threat by quoting the saying
that you buy a machine to run the
software that you want- But if that
was true the Amiga would never
have "beaten" the Atari ST.
When i bought my Amiga It was
200 quid more than the ST and the
software wos Just ported directly
from the ST with no advantage
taken of the Amiga's better
graphics or sound. Not only that but
It quite often cost more for the
same software which was released
a few months after the equivalent
51 release. So why did I and so
many other people buy the Amiga?
In one word, potential. We read
the machine specs and saw a better
machine irrespective of software
av a liability. And look what^s
happened: the ST confined to the
museum and the Amiga out on top.
So what I am saying is that raw
potential (In other words, machine
specs) are Important. What do you
see when you compare the A1200
to the Atari Falcon? A ^ow-density
drive, same old sound. \D£ hard
drive Interface, 68020 and no DSP.
This is compared to, on the Falcon
side, a high-density floppy, 66030.
enhanced sound. DSP, network port,
SCSI 2/IDE expansbn ports, and a
slot on the mothertjoard lor a maths
co-processor.
As for graphics, it seems the
Amiga has better static graphics
iHit the Falcon is better able to
manipulate its enhanced graphics
modes. Also processor-intensive
tasks like ray tracing will inevitably
be faster due to the 68030- So
graphics superiority Is more or less
a matter of opinion. From what I
have read the DSP Is also a very
powerful piece of hardware, capable
of acting as a sound sampler,
graphics digit iser and modem using
the right software. While these
'emulations' may not be up to the
professional quality add-ons
available for the Amiga, how many
of us would like to dabble with
these features but can^t Justify the
expense of extra equipment?
And in answer to your question
of "Who Is developing for the
Falcon?", there are currently over
100 developers beavering away
wlth.-^ er... developments! So I ask,
Is the A1200 a worthy successor to
the A 500/ 600? Is it the machine to
take the Amiga into the next
generation? Is it as good as the
Falcon? I don t think so. I've t)een
disappointed with Commodore's
handling of the Amiga since release.
Commodore with its Initial
advantage could have confined Atari
to the PC clone market. But now
Atari has a second chance. A few
good titles on the Falcon will start
the ball rolling as it did with the
Amiga a few years ago. Now I
wouldn't go so far as to say Atari
will win the '32-bit war' - as we all
know better specs don't always win
out " but they do have a better
starter on the l^ocks,
Adam Thomson
Fyvie, Aberdeenshire
Some interesting and val»d points.
Adam. The A1200 may not be
completely state-of-the-art, but it still
represents a significant advance in
Amiga technology.
icanMrf
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from tite trials 'ahd toftur&s of
H experience, or overcome some mlnd-
boggtlng problem through incredible
'ingeriuity or even sheer tuck? Then
Jet us know and win yourself a fiver
-into'ihe tia^aln. fiiat'hffnd yotUr post-
''embarrassed tomes io 't can tarf
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., 'TV's horizontal hold: Piaying'g^e^'
ori'my Amiga was no problem, but,
when it came to using DPaint I -^
!couldn't see the far right column and
the bottom three coloiJrs on the .
palette^ and hail to g^As where rny
^bloureweTO.<>; fj^r' .- , V
:, "..^A-''- j - ■ -- Vai-'"' ~-^'"S* -■,■■■ ■ 'v
■- . One day. wrth scrfewdrfver IrU; ^ ■ ^
/liahd; I attempted to resblvft tbtf-- >-'i
niggle once and for all. "After turning
nearly every boanMwunted pot I
^could And. 1 switciied the TV back . , . ,^
^on.ltWdn't work, fto (decided to ^^
^tahe it round to the TV repair man, ■
'Who lives just Touhti the cdrner.^
.While carryir^ my TV t^ him, I
^dropped it- Embarrassed, I picked up
>the pi'ecesand c^r^ed them home ^
;ageii^.Yb5ught'a'rdlflR'ely cheap ; ,-
/(Mrtable colour TV as a repFacttment. '
/-T/^'^ About' a month or"twd later \ was
'fiddling with DPalnt. trying out all . ;
.the keys to help me paint fa'ster,, i ' '
^when I came upon a combination ^
{that cWu well havS'sliVecf my old TV;
^-ff you press "stilff'aritf the Cursor
'keys, you can move'the icohs and
''palette to a more visible position^
-. . - '
The comparjson with the Falcon
has certainly caused controversy, but
I think we can safefy feave the
subject alone until some of these
new Atans are actually on sale.
i agree that the Amiga took off
because of people adminng its
technical excellence, but its real
popularity came once there was
software running on it that people
wanted - mostly games, of course. I
thmh The market has changed: any
computer launched now will stand or
fall on the software available for it -
witness at the success of the PC,
despite its inferior architecture. This
isn't to say that we shouldn't be
interested m tech specs, of course,
but that we should perhaps treat
them as one more consideration
alongside 'Will it do what I want it
TO?" when making buying decisions.
I
6 Could J Doig. P McKeown and H
Owens please write to the address
at the top of the previous page?
We'd like to send you some money,
but we've Lost your addresses!
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEMUAflf 19^3 ■ H
PRINTERS
ven If you own nottilng mor«
than a basic A600. you'd
ne surprised iust liow far
you can expand your
mdcnmcf. Above and Deyond itie
uflual OMifflfl flueh ftfi RAM
isipanstona. onUa dbh drives and
hard dfUes, the Amiif'i i% Cjtp^ble of
handling aM manrier of different add<
vr>9. Ttioac can ran^v from 24 bit
display cards, networking systema.
polaroid palette Interfaces and even
robot Hrm*. Out after all Is said and
donv, undoubtedly thp most us«fu(
add-on you could over buy Is the
humble printer.
Howevef, choosing a printer can
be contusing. Not only do you have
to chooee which maUe and model of
printer you'd like, but you've also got
to decide which tyoc of orinter best
ftuit"^ yfluf indMfiuAl npprift With
mkjot and ift&Gt pnoters now
aroopine in price to such a ooint mm
they're now within the reach of the
avcrugu usor, choosing a dot matrix
may no longer Oe the best bet. This.
then, is the aim of this feature.
We've combed tho marketplace in
search ot the undisputed market
leaders - the printers that have
proved most popular amongst Amiga
users. How well do they perform and
how suitable are they for specific
applications? All these questions -
and more - will now be answered.
PRINTER TYPES
As mentioned aOove, popular
printers come in three main flavours:
dot mairi>[ pnnters (9- and 24pln).
Inkjets {including bubblejets) and. for
the ultimate m orinting technology,
laser pnnters. All three of these
printers have their pros and cons, so
don't Think that spending thousands
of pounds on a laser printer will give
vuu ^ gtinit^t [fidi cdri ridnUle
anything. Yo^ should always start by
assessing your pnnting reauifements
and then choose the type ot printer
that best suits them.
DOT MATRIX PRINTERS
The n>ost common type of printer is
the humble dot matrix. This type of
printer continues to outsell the rest
by a very large margin indeed^ Dot
matnv printers work hy stamping a
pattern (a matrix) of dots onto the
paper using a print head (the part of
the printer that forms the
characters). This contains a vertical
stnp of fine wires (or 'pins' as they
are technically referred to).
The characters are marked onto
the paper, not by the impact of the
pins with the paper, but by placing
an inked ribbon between the pins
and the paper. When a pm strikes
the paper through the inked riDDon, a
very small amount of ink is
deposited- Characters are built up by
combining these patterns of dots to
form recognisable shapes.
However, the shape of these
characters is not controlled by the
Amiga - all it does is to send the
pfintor s message telling tt that a
particular letter is required. The
printer then forms this character
from the matrix pattern stored in its
Internal memory.
Pros: These days, a fairty capable 9-
pin dot matrix with a fair selection of
NLQ fonts can be picked up for as
little as £100- Dot matrix pnnters
are also very cheap to run, especially
when compared to an inkjet. For
heavy duty tasks, a dot matnx is the
only affordable option.
Cons: The Impact between the
printer's pins and the paper does
produce a fair amount of noise. Older
models are panicutarly bad, but
manufacturers have sunk a lot of
funds into reducing this problem as
much as possible. The result Is the
development of a new range of
quiet' dot matnx printers which -
while still nowhere near as quiet as a
laser or inkjet - are considerably
quieter than the ear-bashers that
users have endured in the past,
INKJETS
Inkjets have been around for many
years now, but they're only just
startrng to make an lmpress^on (If
you'll pardon the pun) due to recent
price reductions and ttie need
amongst users for much higher
quality printouts. Often rivalling laser
printers in terms of print quality and
quietness, the rnkjet works by
literally spraying ink onto the page in
minute amounts and under very
precise control-
Inkjets are very similar to dot
matnx printers. However Instead of
striking the paper with a set of wire
pins, the image is built up on me
page by spraying tiny dots of ink onto
the page to form characters. The
inkjet replaces the wire pins of the
dot matnx with a set of tiny nozzles.
As the paper is passed in front of the
pnnt head, tiny pumps force the ink
out of the nozzles at high speed,
producing patterns of dots.
Trying to decide befween an
inkjet, dot matrix or laser
printer? Jason Holborn puts
twenty top models to the test
A more recent deveiopment rn
the inkjet field is the bubblejet
printer. This works in a very similar
way, but instead of pumping out the
ink^ tiny heaters within the nozzles
heat it up. The air bubbles produced
then displace the Ink. forcing it out of
the nozzle. Bubblejet pnnters can
use even smaller nozzles than an
inkjet, therefore producing even
better results.
Pros; Inkjets have dropped in price
substantially, so they are now a
serious threat to 24-pln and even
some more expensive 9-pln dot
matrix pnnters. Because an Inkjet is
a non-impact pnnter. it is atso veiy
quiet. Quality is also very good
indeed (certainly a lot better than a
dot matrix) and is very close to a
laser when printing text. Inkjets are
usually also a lot faster than a dot
matnx running m NLQ mode.
Confli Inkjets are quite expensive to
run. The ink cartridges that they use
can be used up very quickly indeed
when pnnting full page graphic
printouts. Replacement ink
cartridges can be quite expensive too
- especially if you're using a colour
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING *
Buffer - Because the Amiga is
capable of sending infonnation to
a printer a lot faster than it can
actually pnnt that infonnation, a
printer buffer acts as a temporary
store for unpnnted information, A
print buffer allows the Amiga to
work at full speed without having
to wait *or the printer to catch up
with It. In general, the larger the
print buffer, the better. Most dot
matrix pnnters have a print butter
of approximately 8K in size which
is capable of holding over 8000
different characters-
CPS - CPS [Characters Per Second) is
a method of indicating the speed
of a printer. In general, the larger
the CPS rating, the faster the
printer. Most printer
manufacturers usually quote two
CPS ratings - one for NLQ mode
and one for Draft mode.
Centronics - Most printers use what
is known as a Centronics'
connector to mate the printer
together with the computer that Is
to drive it. The Centronics
connector is really nothing more
than a glorified parallel port, but
you should be aware that a
special centronrcs printer lead is
required to conr>ect a Centronics
printer to the Amiga's parallel
port. These are commonly
available for about a tenner.
DPI - DPI (Dots Per Inch) is a
measurerrwnt of the resolution
(sharpfiess) of a printer. DPI
ratings don't really make a lot of
difference to text printing, but they
are very important for printing
from desktop publishfng programs
because a printer with a high DPI
rating will produce ciearter and
sharper results-
Draft - Draft Is a special high speed -
pnntrng mode available on dot
matrix and Inkjet printers. It works
by sacrificing pnnt quality Jn
favour of raw printing speed.
Although draft pnntouts are no
I M AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 77 m FEBRUARY 1993
PRINTERS
inkjet< for
which four cartridges are
required (red. green, blue and black).
Fresh Inkjet printouts must also be
handled carefully because the ink
often taKos several seconds to dry.
LASERS
For the ultimate in print quality, you
need a laser pnnter. Designed
specjfically for DTP applications, the
laser produces printed documents
which are second to none.
Contrary to popular belief, lasers
don't work by burning the image onto
the page. Instead, the image is
transferred to the page using
charged mk particles. Before the
image can he pnnted, the entire
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
good for iQttorflf they're more
than adequate tor things like
prc^ofn tistlngs ond plain text.
Emulation - Because most printers
are designed to work on many
different makes of computer.
printer manufacturers build in
what are known as printer
emulatrons'- To make tne task
of controlling printers simpler,
pnnter emulations allow many
different makes and models of
pnnter to be controlled using the
same protocol [or printer
"language"). If a pnnter uses a
common emulation, then finding
a printer driver to drive that
printer from your computer is
considerably easier.
Fonts - A font defines the shape
and appearance of printed text.
All pnnter^ come with at leasi
one font built in, When you print
a character on a prmtern the
computer needs only tell the
printer what the character is. It
then prints the character using
the font in its built-in memory.
Friction feeder - This pulls paper
through a printer using two
rubber rollers that grip the paper
and force it past the print head.
Friction feeders allow you to use
any type of paper in a printer.
NLQ - NLQ (Near Letter Quattty) is a
special mode available on dot
matrix and Inkjet printers. It's
slower than draft printing, but
produces much higher quality
printouts. Recently, LQ (Letter
QuatilyS printers have appeared
that offer even better quality.
Ptinter driver - A special piece of
software that allows the Amiga
to communicate with a pnnter. It
acts as an interpreter that
converts the Amiga's commands
into commands that the printer
will understand.
Serial - Another method of
connecting o pnnter to the
Amiga IS via the senal port - this
Is not recommended simply
because of the amount of work
required to get the two devices
talking. If you have the choice,
always choose a Centronics
pnnter instead.
Sheet feeder - A sheet feeder
enables a printer to load single
sheets o1 paper automatically,
without havtng to rely on the
user to load each one manually.
Sheet feeders are usually about
£80, but they're worth every
penny if you have to print out the
same document many times.
Tractor feeder - An inferior paper
feeding system, this device
handles the task of feeding the
paper past the printer's print
head. Tractor feeders require
special paper that has evenly
spaced holes on either side.
These are used to puU the paper
through the printer.
page is transferred
to the printer's memory as a massive
graphics image. When the entire
page has been transferred, a laser
beam then fires at a photosensitive
drumn producing a liny charge where
each dot is to appear. The drum is
then passed through a bath of black
toner particles.
The charged areas on the dnim
attract the toner particles, which in
turn are transferred from the drum to
the page. The page then passes
through a fuser which heats il to fix
the particles to the paper
Pros: Lasers aren't cheap compared
to a dot matrin, but they are good
value if you need the print quality.
Black areas that can Jook rather
washed out and banded' on inkjets
and dot matrix printers, are smooth
and purer than driven snow (well,
black snow anyway). Apart from an
integral cooling fan, lasers are also
very quiet.
Cons: Possibly the most annoying
aspect of any laser is the fact that
they can only print whole A4 pages
{even if you only want one line of
text). With the price of paper
nowadays, you can soon run up quite
a bill if you use the printer a great
deal. Toner cartridges are also very .
expensive - expect to pay around
£75 for a new one! Thankfully they
do last quite a long time, providing
that you don't continuously pnnt
massive areas of biack.
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PR^IVNW^EtRS
The newesf arrivals on
the printer scene offer
high quality, low noise
printing at a price
you'll like. We find out
if inkjets are more
than just little squirts
FUJITSU B- 100
£340 Fujitsu Ltd 9 081-573 4444
CANONBJ-IOEX
£299 Canon ^ 081 773 3173
rf*-W^J.
Fujftsu has launched two new ^nkJet
printers - the B-lOO (reviewed here}
and the upmarket B-200. Considering
tne sterling joD Fujitsu has done m the
(lot matfn market, you'd be right tO
expect great things of the company's
new range of Breeze' inKjets,
The B-lOO IS a dinky little printer
that looks very basic, but produces
sofiit very impressive printouts.
Boasting 300 dpi resolution driven by
me printer's bullHn HP DeskJet
emulation mode (wTiicn is supported
by Workbench), the B-lOO offers three
Although inkjets have been available
for years noWn H was Canon's
development of bubblejet pnnting
technology that finally brought the
Inkjet to the masses. Following on
from the successful BJ-130 and BJ-10
bubblejets. Canon's latest (and
greatest) budget bubbiejet offering is
the BJlOex. which is basicaJJy a BJ-IO
with Epson printer emulation.
Thanks to Canon's bubblejet
technology, the BJ lOex is capable of
printing graphics at a maximum pnnt
resolution of 360 dpi. Canon has
NLQ typefaces - Couher. Tinr^s Nordic
and Letter Gothic - fn a number of
different si^es arW styles. Pnnt auatily
IS very good indeed, especially fn^m a
desktop publishing program. With its
SK print buffer, the &100 is capable
of ctiuming out text ai speeds of 160
CDS in Draa aod 80 cos m NLQ mode.
One uni<ji>e feature of the B-lOO
is rts setup method. Instead of
Dftching for a complex control panel.
Fujitsu's pnnter has a massive array
of switches that have to be set to
select fonts and character sets and
wisely produced drivers to allow Amiga
applications to take advantage of this
impressive resolution, so installation
is no problem. Pont speed is good too
- 83 cps in NLQ mode although the
BJ-lOex doesn't offer a high speed
draft mode (this is definitely one area
where the Fujitsu scores over the
Canon). Print tiuffer size is very good
though - a massive 20K pnnt buffer is
fitted as standard. The range of fonts
IS quite good too (lour NLQ fontsi. but
the full range of fonts is not available
in either of the two emulation modes.
such like, Atthough it sourwJs
flaunting, these switches are
surprisingly easy to use. In all. FujHsu
Ooes It again - the B-lOO is a
smashing litOe inkjet that deserves to
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Print Quality 606 6 ;
Speed 6 6 6 6^
Value 666^0
Coverall 6666
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In all. the Canon BJ-lOe* is a
great little printer, but the competition
has become a little sliffer these days.
If you can cope with the mtnimal loss
in resolution, then the Fujttsu is a
better bet.
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KODAKDICONIX 701
£399 Kodak n 0442 61122
£499 Fujitsu -B 081 573 4444
Kodak isn't exactly renowned for
having made a big impact on the
Amiga pnnters market, but the new
Diconix 701 inkjet is well worth
considenng. Positioned in the same
mari^ets as Fujitsu's B-lOO and
Canon's BJ-lOex, the Diconix is an
budget inkjet aimed at desktop
publishers and indeed anyone who
needs the quality of an inkjet without
the price.
The Diconix is a rather plain-
looking machine that fofds down into a
very compact unit that is actually
The big brother of the B-lOO is
Fujitsu's B'200. a bubblejet printer
aimed fairly and squarely at the
Pro Jets and BJ-300s of this world-
Boasting a much faster print speed
and more comprehensive controls
than Its little brother, the B-200 is an
inhiet with attitude.
With its top-loading sheet feeder
and front-mounted sheet collector, the
B-200 IS very simifar in appearance to
both the Pro Jet and the BJ'300. Its
control panel is nicely laid out. but
smaller than Carbon's space-savir^
BJ-lOex, which itself w\t fit quite
happily into a sturdy brief casfi.
But despite its small size, the
DiconU is actually cap^ie of great
things- For starters, its print speed is
pretty impressive for such a small
printer - tJOasting 200 cps in draft
mode and 120 cps m NLQ mode, the
DfConix is the pnnter equivalent of a
turtx>-charged hot hatchback. The
range of fonts is rather disappointing
though - with just one draft and two
NLQ fonts to choose from, you'll
somewhat confusing - you'H definitely
need to read the manual to get this
baby workingl Print Speeds are pretty
impressive - 180 cps in draft mode
and a very impressive 120 cps in NLQ
mode- The 8-200 offers just three NLQ
fonts - Counef. Letter Gothic and
Times rtordic - although these are well
handled- Extra fonts can easily be
added using font cards.
Although te^t pnnt mg is quite
rapid, there's a noticeable delay
between the lime it takes the &200 to
probabfy feel rather held back, TT>e
pnntcf can be driven using either an
HP DeskJet Of \BM ProPrinter printer
dnver. The lack of Epson support is
surpnsing, but rx> great loss.
[
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66600
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load a sheet of paper and the time
when printing commences. This delay
can go on for as long as ten seconds,
reducing ihe overall speed of the
B-200 considerably.
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6660
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606
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CANON BJ-300
£495Cdniin 061773 3173
Canon's BJ'300 may not look that
Spectacular, but luh^ing under the
bonnet is a bubblejet printing engine
that can chum out text at a
phenomenal rate. Boasting print
speeds of 150 cps m NLQ mode and a
whopping great 300 cps in draft
mode, the Canon BJ-300 is a wolf in
sheep's clothing.
Available m both A3 and A4
versions- the BJ-300 is designed for
heavy-duty tasks. Its styling is a cut
atHive [he rest tc». With a very simple
front pane! and the convenierKe of a
buiTt-ln cut sheet feeder, the BJ-300 is
a comfortable and really quite
enjoyable printer to work with. It
boasts three built-in MLQ fonts and a
further 12 fonts can be added via
optional font cards, giving a total of
15 readily-available fonts. Emulation
options are extensive too with no
fewer than three popular modes on
offer - IBM ProPrinter. Canon BJ-lOex
and EpsonLQ,
The BJ'300 may be slightly slower
than Citizen's PfoJet in draft mode,
but it still manages to accelerate past
the competition when printing in letter
quality rnode. Combine this with the
printer's higher resolution, and the B>
300 proves itself to be a very capable
pnnter indeed.
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CITIZEN PROJET
1496 Citizen u 0753 584111
EPSON SQ-870
£659 Epson it 0442 61144
Citizen's weapon in the war of the high
performance inKjets ts the ProJet, a
very capable Inkjet that runs rings
around most of the competition in
terms of printing Speed. Featuring the
same styling as the Fujitsu B-200, the
ProJet even uses the same ink
cartridges as its rival - it's not
unknown for pnnter manufacturers to
license pnnl engines from others.
The ProJet comes as standard
with just one emulation mode - HP
DeskJet - although extra emulations
are available on opuonai cartridges.
Unlike the rest of the competition, the
SCJSTO is the only Inkjet on test that
doesn't use a disposable pnnt head
built into the ink cartridge. The SQ-870
uses a pump that sucks the ink from a
sealed container that slots into the
printer's front panel. This helps the
printer to hold a much larger supply of
ink than the competition, therefore
incfeasing the life of each cartridge.
The most noticeable thing about
the SQ-870 is its extensive range of
typefaces- Whereas the competition
are content to include little more than
From a specification point of view, the
ProJet's greatest selling point is
undoubtediy its speed. As Citizen is
very keen to point out< the ProJet is
clearly one of the fastest inkjets on
the market, especially when printing in
its 360 cps high speed draft mode.
Text printing does slow down a bit jn
NLQ mode - at just 120cps, the
ProJet IS actuary slower than the BJ-
300 when printing letters-
The range of fonts on offer is
pretty standard too - the ProJet offers
three NLQ fonts. Orvce again, extra
three or four fonts, Epson has really
gone to town. The SQ-870 comes with
no fewer than eight typefaces, all of
which are very usable. It chunters
along at a fair old rate too - how does
550 cps in draft mode and 200 cps in
NLQ mode grab you? No other printer
even comes closef Someone should
inform the people at Citizen - who
seem to think that the<r ProJet is the
fastest on the market. Not any more!
In operation, the SQ-870 performs
as expected. One nice feature is the
way the pnnt head automatically
fonts can be added via plug-in
cartridges. In all. the Citizen ProJet is
a very capable ink^et that produces
some very professional, almost laser-
quality results.
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cJeans itserf every few lines to prevent
smudging. Quality is exceptional,
speed IS out of this world and to top it
all, the SQ'S70 happens to look pretty
good too. In all. the SQ'870 is the
ultimate inkjet.
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9-pin or 24-pin, draft
or NLQ - for all-round
flexibility, you can't
beat a good old dot
matrix. Read on to
discover w/iicfi makes
the best impression
STAR IC24- 100
£239 Star UK v 0494 4711U.
Star is certainly putting a lot of
marketing muscle behind its latest
pnnter, the LC24-100, It's not
surpnsing either - in return for your
£239 [or so) you get an attractive-
looking 24-pin with the kind of
specification that you'd normally
expect to pay over £300 for. The
LC24 100 uses Star s new 'Electronic
DIP Switches" (EDS) so it's also very
easy to set up. with none of that fiddly
biro-wieiding needed by normal DiPs.
Specification- wise, the LC24'100
is certainly a giant-k*t*er. it con>es
complete with one Dfaft font and five
NLQ fonts including Roman, Sanserif.
Couner. Prestige and Scnpt. These
fonts are selected from a very easy-to-
use torn panel which, while it may not
be the most high-tech feature that has
ever appeared on a pfinter. gets the
job done elegantly.
The LC24-100 is provided with a
quite substantial 16K print buffer
and is capable of pfintmg at a
maximum speed of 240 cps in
condensed draft m0(*e. However, in
normal operation this slows down to a
(still very respectablel 160 cps in
draft and 53 cps in NLQ mode at 10
characters per inch. Emulations on
offer are EpsonQ and NEC 24 modes.
In ail. the LC24 100 is a great little
printer at a great pnce.
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PRINTERS
STARK- 100
c:2]«4STarUK ir 0494 471111
The S-pin version of the LC24-100 is
the LC-lOO, Stars latest printer aimed
at Amiga users wno have shallow
pockets but big expectations. Possibly
the LC-lOO's greatest asset is
therefore its ability to print in full
colour as standard.
Star supplies two ribbons with the
printer - one in colour and one in
black (fof texi-only or other black-and-
white printing). Swapping between
them can be a pain, but it's highly
recommenOed to save on colour
nu>00 life.
Like its big brother (reviewed on
the facmg page), the LC-lOO has a
pretty impressive specification to
match its pfice. With a maximum
resolution of 240 by 216 dpi. the LC-
lOO offers printing speeds of 150 cps
in Draft Mode arxj a pretty respect^le
(for a 9-p»n) 37,5 cps in NLQ mode
with a choice of one Draft font and
four NLO typefaces.
However, on the down' stde. it
has to be sawS that two of those NLQ
typefaces are simply sli^tly different
versions of the same typeface.
Considering the limitations of 9-pin
pnnters, the print quality of the LC-
lOO is surpnsingly good. Pnnting from
DPaint. colour printouts are fuil of
colour although slight colour bleeding
can be seen
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EPSON LX-lOO
£1S9 Epson TT 0442 61144
EPSON IQ- 1 00
£245 Epson -a 0442 61144
FUJITSU Dl-l 150
£395 Fujrtsu tr 081 573 4444
CITIZEN SWIFT 240C
£359 CllUen " 0753 584111
I have to admit that, before this
review, 1 was not a great fan of Epson
dot matrix printers, but the LX-lOO
came as bit of a shock. Epson has
never really excelled <n the design
department, preferring instead to
churn out the same box-liKe printers^
but the LXlOO is far removed ffom
those early Epson s-
The design of the LK-lOO Is
perhops it5 most striking feature - put
simply, the LX-lOO doesn't even look
Hke a primer. As a matter of fact. It
doesn't look like anything I've ever
Epson's 24-pin offering Is the LQ-lOO,
The big brother of the LX-lOO reviewed
aOove, Once agam. Epson has gone
for the <Tnnimali5l styling that looks
like the sort of thing that Apple might
come up vtfith. When I first saw the LQ-
100 I wasn't that impressed, but its
styling certainly grows on you. Like the
LX-lOO. the LQ-lOO comes complete
with that very handy built-in sheet
feeder, which I absolutely love.
One of the main criticisms levelled
at the LX'lOO was its lack of decent
fonts, but this certainly can't be said
Having already had the opportunity to
play wild Fujitsu's DL-llOO. I have to
ijdmit that I expected great things
from the DL-1150. Fujdsu's latest 24-
pm venture. And. I'm pleased to say.
ihe DL 1150 didn't disappoint.
Fujitsu can't be accused of
producing bonng printers. The DL
1150 is a strange-looking beast, but
its design makes it very pleasant and
easy to use. Its control panel is well
laid out and easpty accessible. Paper
loading is easy too. thanks to good
design and high quality manufacture.
I've never been a huge fan of Citizen
printers, but the Swift 240C has
changed all that. Having already used
a 240C for a couple of weeks when
the printer was first released, having
the opportunity to use one again is
like meeting an old friend^ With its
impressive specification, blindingly-
obvious ease of use and brilliant
output, the Swift 240C suil holds the
24-pin printer crown.
It's no wonder that the 240C has
been doing so well in the market, r^ot
only does it come as standard with full
seen before^ This really is a pnntei for
those of you that like your printers
Simple - even the LX-lOO's front panel
has no more than two buttons on it.
The LX'lOO IS a 9-pin pnnter (the 'U"
bit in its name tells you this). Offenng
pfint speeds of 200 cps in Draft and
40 cps in WLQ mode- With one Dfatt
font and two NLO fonts, the LX-lOO
runs fast but is rather lacking in fonts^
One feature of the LX-lOO which
IS worth noUcing is its built-in sheet
feeder, which Epson supplies as
standard. Although it can only handle
of the LQ-lOO- It comes compfete wiUi
a fairly decent selection of five fonts -
Roman, Sanserif, Couner, Prestige
and &cnpt- Roman and Sanserif are
scalable fonts, so you can enlarge
them to a maximum of 32 point
without loss of quality. Print speed is
pretty good too - 167 cps in Draft and
a very respectable 60 cps in NLQ. Add
this to the LQ-lOO's llK pnm buffer
and yoo've got a printer that will
perform well in most situations.
Although it's not the best 24-pln In
the world, I have to adrr^it that I quite
Specificmion wise, the DL 1150
leave most of the competition
standing. Noi only does it offer the
widest range of different typefaces of
all the dot matnx printers on test, but
its pnni speed is pretty impressive
too. Offering a maximum print speed
of 200 cps in high speed draft mode,
the DL1150 can also chum out 60
cps NLQ mode with a choice of three
draft and seven NLQ fonts. But
possitjiy Its greatest asset is that the
E>l-1150 comes as standard with
coioiJf pnnting capatnlities. Colour
Gdouf- but pnnting graphics on the
240C consistently produces the best
colour pnniouts you're ever likely to
get from a dot matrix. Colours are
vibrant, clean and full of detail, even
on images with lots of different
shades. Text printing isn't bad either -
with nine NLQ fonts and two scalable
NLQ fonts, you'll never find yourself
cufsing the 240C because it doesn't
have enough fonts. Its scalable fonts
can t>e enlarged up to 40 points.
The 240C certainly doesn't hang
around either - boasting a maximum
a maximum of 50 sheets, this sort of
feature really does score highly in my
book. If you can live without the fonts,
the LX-lOO IS one of the most
complete prrnters available.
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like the LQ-100. That built-in cut sheet
feeder certainly helps, but the fast
speed and quite extensive fange of
fonts also make the LQ 100 a very
ntce printer indeed. It looks rather
weird, but then at least it's not ugly.
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pnnting isn't wasted either - printing
from ProPage. the DI-1150 produces
some very acceptable results. In all,
the DL-1150 is one hell of a good
printer. Highly recommended.
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print speed of 200 cps in Draft mode
and a Fujitsu-beaiing B6 cps in NLQ
mode, the 240C is no slouch. Nothing
even comes close to the 240C, It may
be expensive, but you get what you
pay for.
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CITIZEN SWIFT 9
£239 CJtIien TT 07S3 584111
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Citizen's main contender in the 9-pin
printer market is the Swift 9. which
has been available for a fair old time
now, but continues to seff well-
Available in both standard and wide
carfiafie versions, the Swift 9 range
Is still very popular amongst Amiga
users. It's not surprising either -
although the Swift 9 *s technically
nothing to write home about, print
quality <s very good indeed.
TTie Swift 9s design is starting
to show Us age a bit these days.
WitTi LCD displays r^ow virtually the
de facto standard for printer
operation, Ihe Swift's rather crude
LED-based front panei lets it down a
tad. That saidn no-one could possibly
argue that the Swift is anything but
easy to use.
The range of fonts on offer is
nothmg to get excited about either -
wrth fusi one Draft and three NLQ
fonts, the Swift 9 Is hardly going to
win any awards, Pnnimg speed is
quite impressive though - with a
maximum print speed of 213 cps in
high speed draft mode and 40 cps in
NLQ mode, the Swift 9 certainly lives
up to its name-
All things consideredn the Swift 9
may be showing its age, but it's
certainly not going to lie down and
die for a few years yet-
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£325 Citizen v 0753 5S4111
For computer users on the move,
Citizen has the answer to your
portable printing needs in the shape
of the PN-45 NoteDook pnnter.
Despite the fact that the PN-48 Is
small enough to fit into a briefcase, it
pacKs a pretty mean purKh in the
specirtcation stakes. Offering 24'pin
resolution and a very reasonable
pnnt speed, the PN-4S is actually
worth considering for home use too.
Print quality is exceptionally good
thanks to the use of a film ribbon,
rather than the fabric ones used by
other printers. Although film ribbons
don't last anywhere near as long as
a fabric fibdon (Citt^en quotes 25
pages!), ihey give xi^e best quality
results by far. The PN-48 can t>e
used "on the n^ove" thanks to a buift-
in rethargdijie battery pack that is
capable or churning out 30 pages of
NLQ tent before it needs recharging.
For homo use. Citizen aJso include an
external power supply.
Regarding its specifications, the
PN-48 IS impressive considering its
small Size, it doesn't actually have a
draft printing mode, but its two NLQ
fonts print at a very acceplabte 53
cps. The PN-48 is a great pnnter,
with all the advantages of portability,
even if it is expensive to run.
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They^re almost
completely silent, print
at very high quality,
and are getting
cheaper all the time^ A
brand new^ laser is
sure to amaze yerl
£1175 Canon ^ 081 773 3173
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OKIOl'400
£449 Ohi ^ 0800 525 585
1Y\^ LBP-4 Plus Is a printer that looks
good and performs well. Although
rather functional in appearance, the
LBP-4 is a very attractive- loo king
creature. To coin a phrase, less is
more and that's certainly true of the
L8P-4. The front panel ^s uncluttered
and very easy to use, aiiowmg you to
get the most from the printer without
even having to resort to the manual.
The LBP-4 offers a range of
emulation modes including EpsonQ,
IBM ProPrJnter, Diablo and Canon's
own CaPSL, a page descnption
Oki's OL-400 IS an LED pnnter that
includes an impressive specification
with an even more impressive phce
tag. LED printers work slightly
differently from conventJonal laser
printers, but the results are exactly the
same. However, because the OL-400
doesn't have a great big bulky toner
cartridge and laser electronics, it's
half the height of all the other lasers
on test.
Emulation is well catered for with
IBM PfoPnnter. Diablo 630 and HP
LaserJet 2 modes on offer. The range
language similar to HP's LaserJet
languagG. Canon supplies an Amiga
Workbench pnnter driver, so getting up
and running is very simple indeed- The
printer comes with two bitmapped
typefaces (Elite and Courier) and 4
scalable typefaces. Although the LBP'4
offers a standard resolution of 300
dpi. Canons AIR (Aulornatic Image
Refinement) technology helps to
increase print quality above that of a
normal laser.
In alL the LBP-4 is a very well-
designed laser that, while not
of typefaces available is a little
limited, but those that are on offer are
very usable. These include Swiss
(Helvetica). Dutch (Times). LinePnnter
(a condensed non-proportional font)
and of course Courier, Print quality is
generally very good, although some
eady printouts did show signs of print
purity problems (large areas of the
same colour would be lighter in
places) which were probably caused by
an unequal covering of toner on the
printer's drum.
In all though, the OL-400 is an
particularly astounding in the
specification department, desen/es an
overait high score simply on account
of its ease of use and attract! vety-
designed casing.
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except ionally^iced pnnter that, whilst
not being the best Taser on the
market, certainly delivers the best
value for money. If you need a laser
but your budget is tight, then go for
the OL-400.
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AMIGA SHOPPER m ISSUE 22 O FEBRUARY 1993
21
PRINTERS
RICOH IP) 200
£830 SiMCa ^ 081 309 llll
Ricoh's LP1200 laser printer has been
causing quite a stir in the Amiga
marketplace over the last few months.
This is hardly surprising when you
consider that the LP1200 comes with
2Mb of RAM as standard, has a
maximum pnmmg resoluiion of 400
dpi ithat's 100 dpi more than your
average laser] and includes an
eiiensiv/e set of lypefsces.
Although standard printer dhvers
cannot handle the LP1200's 400 dpi
print resolution. Silica does supply a
printer driver that is man enough for
the job. Printing from ProPage. the
LP1200 consislentfy produces results
that are noticeabiy better than the
other lasers on test. Typefaces on
offer include the usual Couner
Prestige and Line Printer, plus Gothic,
CGTimes and Universe, The only real
downer of the LP1200 is the fact that
it cannot be upgraded to PostScript,
although Silica claims that a software-
based upgrade may be made available
at a later date.
Another advantage of the LP1200
is its Flash ROM faciiity which allows
the laser's operating system to be
easiiy upgraded, therefore ensuring
that the LP1200 stays current. With
all these features on offer, the
LP1200 IS without doubt the best
laser avaHable to Amiga users.
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EPSON EPL-4000
£799 £pftOn u 0442 6U44
STAR LASERPRINTER 4
£1J.73 Star UK n 0494 471111
Thinh printers and most people think
Epson, {t s a well known fact that
Epson is generally regarded as 'the'
printer manufacturer. The reasons for
this reputation really have nothing to
do with Epson's products, but more
their acceptance withm British
schools. Epson doesn't just produce
dot matrix pnnters though, as the EPL-
4000 proves.
The basic EPL-4000 COmeS with
512K of RAM, although to be perfectly
honest, the first thing you should do is
to spend the extra £164 on a 2Mb
Regular readers of Amiga Shopper wW
prohabiy remember the LaserPnnter 4
very well indeed - we reviewed it a
coupie of months back. Although it
performs very well, it is rather
expensive - especially when compared
to Ricoh's equally well-endowed iaser,
the LP1200 (reviewed above).
Like the Epson EPL-4000. the Star
LaserPrmter 4 is available with
PostScript emulation for an extra
£500- This adds no fewer than 35
extra fonts to the EPL-4000"s existing
four typefaces, plus faster pnnting via
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Jason Holborn explains fiov\^
choosing the right printer
software and driver can enl
your printouts considerably
Getting the Amiga to communicate
wKh a printer can be most
fruatrattng- You see. the Amiga
doesn't actually know how to
Gommunlcale with a printer. Ttie
dever bit of the Amiga's operating
vystem that g on verts the gonerlc
printer codes that the Amiga
produces is called a 'printer driver*.
The printer driver acts as a sort of
language interpreter and mediator
between the Amiga and your printer^
The pnnter driver is a clever tiit of
software. When the Arrnga attempts to
send a message to a printer, the
pnnter driver steps m^ grabs the
message, analyses it and then
converts it into a form that the printer
can understand. It's a bit like those
strange people that you see on TV
when two world leaders meet - it's
the interpreter's job to make sure that
both parties understand what the
other is going on about.
RAM expansion. Although 512K is fine
for text printing, you'll need ttie extra
RAM for full page graphic printouts.
Regarding emulations, there's the
usual HP LaserJet, EpsonX, IBM
ProPrinter and optional PostScript,
The EPL 4000 Operates at the
same rapid 6 ppm as the LP1200, but
the range of typefaces on offer is a
little limited. Although the manuai
claims that the EPL'4000 has 14
fonts, these are simply based around
two typefaces in a variety of different
styles. Print quality is excellent with
the PostScript page description
language. PostScript needs lots of
RAM though, so youii need to upgrade
the basic 1Mb LaserPnnter 4 to at
least 2Mb using Star's own RAM card.
If. on the other hand, you don't need
PostScnpt. the LaserPnnter 4 can be
driven using either HP LaserJet or
HPGL/2 emulations.
The LaserPnnter 4's performance
is generally very good, although il is
rather slow at just 4 ppm. The range
of typefaces ts very good indeed arxi
the 1Mb of memory as standard
very good print purity and the EPL-
4000 IS very easy to use, thanks to a
well-designed front panel, m all, the
EPl.'4000 is a great pnnter. but it
realty needs to be cheaper.
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makes the Star laser a more attractive
proposition. If you think you'll need
PostScnpt at a later date, then this is
the laser to buy. For the rest of you,
go for the LP1200.
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Commodore very kindly supplies a drivers aren't exactly renowned for
range of printer drivers with every
Amiga sold. Depending upon the
version of Workbench that you're
using, you'it find a range of printer
drivers designed to handle a iarge
number of different printers
somewhere on your system disks
liht tf Ip'I t* _tJ— !
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If you buy a Citizen printer, make
sure you get the Print Manager tool
(refer to your Workbench manual to
find out their exact locationl. While
these drivers will handle most
common pnnter emulations, it's
inevitable that there are some printers
available that aren't supported.
What's more, the Workbench printer
being particularly good at their job.
In an attempt to keep Amiga
users happy, several pnnter
manufacturers have specially
developed pnnter drivers designed
specifically for their range of printers.
The fifst to realise the need for printer
drivers was Citizen
(manufacturer of the 240C.
Swift 9k< and ProJet), who
released Pnnj Manager, a cut
down version of IrseeSoft's
TurboPhnt Professional.
Although Commodore's own
EpsonX and EpsonQ drivers will
handle many Citizen printers,
the Prirft Manager drivers are
faster, more flexible and
generally produce much better
results. Citizen is selling this program
to Amiga users for just £15.
CANON'S ABLAZIN'
Following Citizen's lead, several other
printer manufacturers have jumped on
the bandwagon. First up was Canon,
who launched a wliole range of printer
drivers for their BJ-lOex. BJ-20, BJ-
44 AMIGA SHOPPER •ISSUE 22 •FEBRUARY 1993
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Canon's rage of printer drivers will
enable you to print at full resolution
on any of its Inkjet^, giving a
maximum of 360 by 360 dpJ output
300 and LBP range of bubbiejet and
laser prinlers. The drivers also include
a couple of extra utilities thai enable
you to fine-tune the printing process
and even download standard Amiga
bitmapped fonts to certain printers.
Star also claims to have produced
Amiga printer drivers^ although I must
admit that I atill haven't seen them
(despite badgering Star lor monthsl). If
you buy a Star printer, you should
therefore hassle your supplier or
coniacl Star directly to make sure that
you gel the right one. Star clairt^s to
have sent these drivers to
major distributors, so getting
hold of them shouldn't be
that to ugh -
One of the worst
Wofkbench printer drivers
was the old and faithful HP
LaserJet driver. After years
o1 user moaning,
Commodore has addressed
this problem w+th a brand
spanking nev^ driver which is now
bundled with Workbench 3.0 on the
A1200 and 4000 machines. Hopefully
the rest of us should see this when
Wort\Dench 2,1 is finally released
(where is it. Commodore?).
If you can't wait that long. Silica
Systems has stepped ^nto the foray by
announcing the impending release of
a new HP LaserJet 3 driver written by
IrseeSoft (The company behind
Citizen's Print Manager). Written
specifically for the Ricoh LP12G0 laser
printer Silica claims that the new
driver supports the Ricoh's maximun*
400 dpi prinCing mode. However, it
should also be usable on other HP
LaserJet lasers^
i
ENHANCE YOUR PRINTER
Third-party software vendors have
been quick to iump on the printer
bandwagon with the release of
several very good printing utllttles-
Deslgnad to Improve and even extend
the printing ablMties of the
Workbench printer drivers, these
products are well worth considering H
you want to gel the very be«t from
your printef.
TURBOPRINT PRO
£49.99 H8 Marketing
u (0753) 686000
German developer IrseeSoft has
decided that the best way to improve
upon the Workbench printer software
is to scrap it altogether. TuitoPhnt
Profession^ includes not only its own
range of printer drivers, but a^so a
tirand new 'printer. device' (the
operating system device that handles
pnnters). The result fS a program that
not only works faster than the
Workbench drivers, but is capable of
producing considerably better results.
TuftoPrint Professionat gives you
extensive contrcil over the printing
process. You are even given the
power to change the dither pattern
used when printing pictures.
TRUEPRINT/24
£54.95 Silica Systems
« (081) 309 1111
ASDG's answer to the problem of
printing 24-bit pictures on a printer Is
TfuePrint/2d. a stand-alone version of
the Save To Preferences' Saver
module from Art Departfnent Pro 2.1.
TfijePfint/24 enables you to print 24-
bit images with considerably more
shading than would normally be
possible if the image was converted to
HAM and printed from within a HAM
paint program. For 24*it fans who
don't already own AdPro 2.1,
7njePrtnt/24 is a must.
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSOt 22 • FEBRUARY 1993 ^^
B E G I
E RS
If you were lucky enough to
find an Amiga lurMng at the
bottom of yoifr Christmas
stocking and you're aleo new
t« thle mngnilne, we'd like to take
this opportunity to welcome you to
the fascinating and very rewarding
worki of Amiga c«nputlng-
Vou're low the proud owner of
wlini 1*1 unOtJuLiiPiily Uie niosr
powerful and most sophisticated
nome corripLiier ever devised.
onenng the mo si gorgeous graphics.
3Cl nil Noting aound and moutn-
woicFlnK music taliT- £cJJ, (Ts easy
to see why the Amiga coritinues to
bo the most popular home computer
over produced- Whot'5 more, you're
nun ujic of Uic elite - you're an
Amiga user.
The computer that you own is
just one of a whole family of
personal computers produced by
Commodore bearing the Amiga
name. Rorigmg fTom the 'home'
Amigas [the A600 ar\d A1200) rigm
up to the workstaiiornlike A4000. the
Amiga range offers unparalleled
power for very Tittle cash. Since the
release of The ofigmai Amiga AlOOO
back in 1984, the Amiga has
continued to dominate the UK
computer scene. It's no wonder
either - no other home computer
offers the speed and power that the
Amiga delivers in such a compact
unit. Others have tried to match it,
but few have even come close. If you
were responsible for choosing the
Amiga you now own, then pat
THE AMIGA KEYBOARD
Attfiou^ many operations can be performed using the Amiga's n>ouse
controller, it's inevrtable that you'll eventually have to brush up on your typing
skills. The Amiga uses a standard OWERTV formal which is the same
KeytJoara layout used on all computers and typewnters. However, you may well
have noticed a couple of extra features thai you won't find on a typewriter.
Here's a rough gutde to what those extras do:
1. 'Amiga' keys. These two special keys are used Tn conjunction with other
keys on the Amiga keyboard for seiecting operations using hot key'
combinations. For example, pressing the left 'A' key and 'H' wilt send the
current front screen to the back.
2. Disk LED. Both tfie A600 and the A1200 are capabie of be^ng ntted whh
an Internal IDE hard drive. Providing your machine is equipped with such a
drive* this LEO wiil be tit when the Amiga Is accessing the hard drive.
3- Floppy LED. When the Amiga accesses a disk In Its Internal drive, this
L£D wilt iigfit up. Never remove a disk when this or the disk LED are lit. TMs
couM damage the disk, therefore losing the Information that the disk holds.
4. Power LED. When your Amiga it turned on, this LED will remain
permanently lit to Indicate that the machine is powered up.
5. Help. By Itself, ttie Help^ key doesn't actually do a great deal. However,
some programs will display helpful information when this key is pressed.
B. Function koys. Like the Help key, function keys won't actually do a great
deal unless the program that you're running makes use of tiMin.
programs use them to provide an easy method of selecting common
operations without having to remember complex commands.
yourself on the back for making such
a Wise choice - you've earned it.
Over the next sti pages, we'll
show you all that you need to know
to get started with your new
acqutsition. We also hope to open
your eyes to the possibilities that the
Amiga delivers - although the Amiga
plays a pretty mean game {don't
worry, even the lechies enjoy a game
of Rainbow Islands occasionally!),
using the Amiga tor nothing more
than games is like driving a car in
first gear. But we're not going to
patronise you by assuming that you
don't already know this - after all,
you wouldn't have bought Amiga
Stopper (the magazine that's
serious about your Amiga) \f you '
weren't already aware of what the
Amiga is capable of. Desktop
publishing, video titling, solid
modelling, ray tracing, word
processing, programming. Computer
Aided Design - all these applications
and more are now within your grasp.
BUT ON THE SIDE
What makes the Amiga so wonderful
is its advanced custom circuitry, as
designed by Commodore specifically
for the range. At the heart of the
machine are three "custom' chips
that wor1< together to produce the
amazing graphics and sound that
have made tlie Amiga famous. The
most famous of these three is
Agnus, the chip responsible for the
Amiga's impressive graphics.
Possibly the most infamous aspect
of Agnus is the blitter, a device
designed to allow the Amiga to move
large chunks of graphic from one
place to another, and to draw lines
and filled polygons faster than even
the fastest processor.
Blitter stands for 'Block Image
Transfer', but the Amiga's blftter is
capable of so much more than just
copying graphics from one place to
another. As Commodore is keen to
point out, the Amiga's bfitter should
technically be renamed a 'Blimmer'
(Block Image Manipulator) because
of its powerful image manipulation
facilities. The Amiga's blitter offers
256 Image manipulation functions
which allow the blitter to transform
graphic data virtually In real time.
Add to this the blitter's ability to
draw lines and polygons aT a rate of
thousands per second and you've
got a machine that is ideal for 3D
modelling - or indeed any application
that requires the high speed transfer
of graphic information.
Agnus IS backed up by two other
very specialised custom chips -
Denise and Paula. Dentse is
responsible for handling the Amiga's
screen display. Working in
conjunction with Agnus. Denise is
capable of not only changing the
colour palette of a screen at any
point, but also its resolution. This
Agnus - Agnus is the Amiga's
graphics chip, a custom processor
that can run independentiy of the
mam one.
I Blitter - This is the key to the
Amiga's high speed graphics
capabiiitiesn a special piece of
circuitry inside Agnus that allows
the Amiga to copy areas of the
screen and draw lines and
polygons at a frighteningiy fast
rate. The blitter allows the Amiga
to produce stunnrng animation
and lightning-fast 3D graphics.
Copper - A co-processor built into
Denise that can changing certain
aspects of the Amiga's screen
display ^colour palette, or
resolution, for instance) at any
point on the screen.
Custom chips - What separates the
Amiga from the competition are
Its powerful custom chips. These
chips (which the
facility is used
extens^vely by the
Amiga's operating system and
WorKt>ench environment to allow
multiple screens to be opened and
even displayed simultaneously.
Combine this with its powerful
multitasking operating system, and
it's easy to see why the Amiga stili
offers the best multitasking
capabilities on any machine.
A MULTTTUDE OF SKILLS
If you've never used a machine that
offers multitasking capabilities, then
you're in for bit ot a shock. Unlike a
traditional computer that is only
capable of running one program at
any one time, the Amiga can run
many different programs
simultarieously, each of which can
have their own screens and windows.
With the development of ARexx, the
Amiga's powerful multiprocess
communications language, you can
even have programs from different
manufacturers shanng information
and working together. Imagine the
possibilities of running a word
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have t)€en speci^caMv designed
are released, all you have to do
into eveiy Amiga that acts as a
monitor provides considerably
to handle trie Amiga's powertui
Is to change this chip anO your
mediator between the Amiga's
better picture Quality both in
graphics and sound copabi fties.
Amiga remains right up to date.
hardware and programs. The
operating system is also
tenns of detail and colour.
Ognlco - A f^hip inc^idn Tho Amiga Vn^i
Mouse - A small electronic device
fGEponsibie for the Amiga's
Simples - The Amiga's entire sound
is responsible for forming
used to control the movement of
multitasking abilities and the low-
capabilities are based on the
complex screen displays.
an orvscreen mouse pointer'- 11
level routines used by the
theory of sampling. Sampling is a
contains two 'buttons' (used for
machine's powerful windowing
process that converts an analog
HAM * A special !^cr^(?n mode for
selecting icons and such like)
system. Workbench.
sound signal into a OigHal format
ai^pl^ying up 10 ^Oyb colours on
and a small rubber-coated ball
that can be stored, manipulated
screen at once.
whose movement is measured
when the mouse is moved
Paula - A chip inside the Amiga that
ho3 dual role. It rs responsible
and then played back.
HAM-8 - A1200 and A4000 owners
across a flat surface.
for handling the Amiga's various
WIMP - The Amiga's Workbench
hdve access to a more advancea
ports, and the Amiga's
environment is what is known as
version of HAM ttiat takes
MultltasMng - A sophisticated part
impressive 4-channel sound.
a 'WIMP' system. WIMP stands
advantage of the special 'AGA'
of the Amiga's design that allows
for Window, Icon. Menu, Pointer
custom graphic chips inside
it to run more than one program
Procesaor - The heart of the Amiga
and is a very simpte method of
those machines. HAM^ is
at any one time. You could, for
rs its processor, a Motorola
perfonriing complex tasks us^ng
copobte of 01 s ploying o maximum
e;iEample, run a paint package m
66000, which carries out all
an on-screen mouse 'pointer'.
of 263.000 different colours on
one screen and a word processor
catculations and keeps the rest
mrPHH at oncy, giylrig almost
in another, while a ray tracing
Of the machine in check. The
Workbench - The Workbench is a
pltolugraphiG re&u ts-
program generates a 3D scene.
processor is best thought of as
program that enables you to
The Amiga is still the only
the Amiga's brain'.
carry out common operations
Rlckfitart - The name ot the chip
personal computer available on
(such as running programs) and
in^iue your Amiga That holds Its
the market that offers this very
RGB Monitor - Although the Amiga's
general disk tasks by clicking on
operating system. When new
useful facility as standard.
display can be viewed on a
icons with the mouse pointer.
If you found an Amiga in your
Christmas stocking^ then don't
panic! Kindly Jason Holborn is
here to explain all the basics
The Amiga's Workbench Is the
latest In a Jong line of mouse-
controlled WIMP systems
processor in one screen, a paint
package, a music composition
program and the Workbench
simulianeousty without having to
rotvijJ uach eveiy ttmu you wish to
use them. Once you've used
multitasking, you'll never want to
look back to the had old days' of
only running one program at once.
Last but not least
we have Paula, the
Amiga's much
heralded sound chip.
Aiihough others may
have now surpassed
it, Paula is still a
pretty impressive
slither of silicon which
IS capable of playing
up to four tracks of sampled audio
simultaneously in full stereo sound-
WORKING THE BENCH
The computers that we have today
are a far cry from the complen, room-
filling beasts that were the order of
the day little more than twenty years
ago. These monolithic creatures were
not only expensive, but were terribly
complex to use. Each and every
operation that you wanted to carry
out had to be entered as a crypttc
command via the computer's
keyboard. This led to the evolution of
a bizarre sub-culture of super-
intelligent whizz-kids' who seemed
to be the only humans capable of
grasping this technology.
However, thanks to some bright
spark at Xerox's Research
Laboralones, this sort of elitism was
brought to an end with the
development of the WIMP
environment. Instead of typing Tn
complex commands, computer users
could control their machines by
moving cin on-screen pointer around
the screen using a mouse controller.
By simply clicking the mouse button
when the pointer was directly over a
small pictorial representation (called
an "icon') of what you were trying to
do. the computer would perform the
operation that was associated with
that icon.
The Amiga is only one of many
machines that have embraced this
wonderful method of controlling a
computer. The Amiga's WIMP system
IS called intuition and built upon this
IS the Amiga Workbench. The
Workbench will provide you with a
quick and easy-to-learn method of
controlling the Amiga, Simply by
learning a few basic pnncipleSn you'll
be able to perform all sorts of
common computer operations such
as running programs and copying,
deleting and renaming files, Oon't
feel intimidated by the Amiga's
Workbench - after a little practrcen
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A butc Am^ is a orettv mean oerformer by anyone's standards, but its
range of ports and interfaces will allow you to extend your machine still
fv<V>cr. Horn's what all \hmv Qb^cure looking connectors do:
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Another form
of video
output Is the
COfMP, port -
the Amiga a
video display
In composite
format. This
can be fed
Into any
monitor,
televLsJon or
video that
accepts a
composite
signal.
1, Disk drive. For some operations,
a second d(3k drive is a definite
must. This port will allow you to
cor>nec1 up to three extra disk
drives to the Amiga, making many
ta«kfi considerably easier.
2> Serial. Conforming to the
ubiquitous R5232 standard, the
Amiga's serial port is used to
connect devices such as modems
and serial printers to your
machine^ Developers liave also
used this port extensively for MIDI
Interfaces, touch tablets and even
home electronics kits.
3. Parallel. By far the most useful
connector on tlw Amiga Is tts
parallel port. Although designed
specifically for the connection of a
parallel printer, the Amiga's
parallel port can be used to
connect a whole host of different
add-ons. Including sound samplers.
video digttisers, hand scanrwrs
and even hard disk drives.
4. Audio connectors. If you want to
really appreciate the Amiga's
wondorfui sound oopobllitlos, th«n
you should connect it to a hl-fl
through these ports. Two sound
channels are available on each
port, giving true stereo sound.
5- Video. The Amiga's video port is
used to connect an RGB monitor
to your machine^ Because the
screen display is transmitted In
RGB form, the picture quality
obtained from a monitor is
considerably better than the
r«suits that you'll get using the RF
fModu later connector.
7. RF modulator. If you don't own
an RGB monitor, tfwHi this
connector provides a convenient
method of displaying the output
from your Amiga, The RF
Modulator socket outputs a
standard RF video signal which
can be connected to the 'ariel In'
socket on any television.
8. Power- Undoubtedly the most
Important connector of all. your
Amiga is pretty useless unless It's
plugged in here.
9. PCMCIA. Most of the Amiga's
connectors are pretty self
explanatory, but this one Is
probably not so obvious. PCMCiyw
Is a fairly new development that
allows the Amiga to use industry
standard PCMCIA cards. These
credit card-siied devices provide a
method of expanding the Amiga.
Not only can RAM expansions and
memory cards (a memory card
holds its contents even when the
Amiga is turned off) be used, but
third-party developers are already
hard at work producing add-ons
9uch Bs modems, sound samplers,
iiard drives and dlgltlsers that will
connect to the Amiga via this port.
10. Mouse/ Joy stick. The Amiga
Includes two standard Atari-style
9-pin joystick connectors, tlte first
of which is also used to conrtect a
mouse controller to your Amiga.
11. Joystick 2. If you enjoy the
occasional game, then this port
can be used to connect any
standard Atarl^styie digital Joystick
to your Amiga.
you'll find it a very logical and
straightforward method of controlling
the Amiga's operation.
BE SURE OF SHEU
The Amiga's Workbench proi/ides all
the power that most people rheed to
ooerate their Amigas. Out there will
inevitably come a lime when you
start to feci hold bach by all those
windows, icons and menus. That's
when it's ttme to turn to the Shell.
gateway to the Amiga's advanced
disk operating system.
Using the Sheft is just like using
a conventional command line-based
cofnpuler such as the early PCs. But
don t let this put you off - although
the Shell and its many commands
may seem daunting at first, tt
provides unparalleled control over
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LEANER AND MEANER
If you think the Amiga is already
impressive^ you ain't seen nothin'
yetl With a little bit of extra
hardware, you can transform your
Amiga into a real mean performef
that wiH not only be more fun to use,
but more productive too. Here's a
brief run-down of the add-ons you
may want lo consider:
• Second Drive^ Ast< most Am*ga
users what the first peripheral that
they bought was and chances are
they'll say a second dnve. For
operations such as copying disks
ar>d accessing the Amiga's powerful
AmigaDOS Shell, a second drive isn't
a luxury - It's an absolute necGSStty,
You may find that some programs
come on more than one disk too -
with a second
drive attached to
your machine^
you'll find using
that program
considerably
easier because
you won't have
to keep
swapping disks
^™i'-« I while It's
running.
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Compared to Workbench. AmigaDOS
provides a far more direct method of
performing many disk operations
the Amtga's disk operating system.
Virtually all of the tasks that you can
achieve from the Workbench can be
repeated with<n the Shell, simply by
entering the appropriate Shell
command. Although it's not quite as
approachable as the Workbench,
AmigaDOS provides a more direct
method of carrvtng out common disk
operations such as formatting disks,
copying files, and more.
Another very powerful aspect of
the Shell is its ability to perform long
lists of commands held within what
IS known as a script' file. Although
each command is a separate
AmigaDOS command m its own right,
the Shell executes the script as if it
were running a program. Script files
can be very usefui when you need to
perform a disk operation involving
many complen steps. By simply
grouping I he so steps into a script
file, the entire process can be
achieved by typing just a single
command in the Shell.
Look out for Mark Smiddy's
AmigaDOS column in every issue of
Amiga Shopped (on pages 89-92 of
this issue, for instance). Mark is
generally regarded as one of the top
AmigaDOS experts in this country,
and every month he deives ever
deeper into the mysteries of
AmigaDOS. If you want to know how
your Amiga's disk operating system
ticks, then this is clearly the man to
listen to.
• RAM Expansion. If you've
upgraded to the Amiga from an S-bit
machinen 1Mb of RAM may sound
if tliere's a particular aspect of the
Amiga's Workbencii tiiat doesn't
quite appeal to you. ttien you can
ciiange it to suit your own personai
preferences. Take the Worktkench
coiour paiette, for example -
Commodore knows that grey on
biack, white and biue may not be
everybody's cup of tea. so a paiette
tool is provided that allows you to
permanently change the screen
paiette. (Well, until you decide to
change It again > that is.)
The key to this customising power
is the Amiga Preferences system, a
fieiection of rndividuai programs
designed to allow you to fine tune and
change certain aspects of the Amiga's
operation to sua your own taste and
computer setup. The Amrga
Preferences aren't just restncted to
cosmetic changes, though - they are
also used to ten the Am^ga the type of
screen n^KXie you would like the
Worltbench to use, the type of printer
connected lo your Amiga, and so on. If
you'd like to add 'go faster' stripes
and fancy chrome strips to your
Amiga, then read on,
• Input. The Input utility alfows you to
fine lune the speed of certain system
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like a lot - but, believe me, it arn't.
These days, a 1Mb machine is barely
adequate for running anything other
than the sifYiplest of applications, K
you want TO geT Invfilvfjrl in any form
ot serious grapfiics, video or DTP
viroris, then ejitra RAM will definitelv
be needed. How much you fit
aepende entirely upon your own
|ju(]£ei - if YOU con fiffoni ir [hough, a
{qXqI of 4Mb of RAM i;^ generally
regardea as comtonahle,
• hard Drive. A hard drive 13 the
next lugjco^ slcu up ffOfn the second
drive thai we mentioned earlier. Due
to its speed and very high storage
capacity (even the smallest A600
hard drive can store up to twenty
disks' worth of information!), a hard
drive will give you almost instant
access to all your programs and data
tiles. Once you've used a hard disk-
based Amiga, you'll never want to
touch floppies againf
Hara arives come in a divert
range of different sizes. Don't
automatically assume that a 20Mb
hard drive will be suitable. Although It
may seem large at tirsi, you'd be
surpnsed just how quickly this can fill
up with DPaint pictures, sound
samples, application programs and
the like. More than lOOMb is
p99aibly «■ litllQ cj^trtavagonti biA
you'd possibly live to regret buying
anything smaller than 50Mb.
• Printer If you'd like to keep a
permanent record of your workn then
a pnnler is a must. The printer is the
sort of device that can find a use in
virtually every application of the
Amiga that you dare to mention.
Whether you're a
program mefn
musician, artist
or writer, a pnnter
15 bound to prove
a godsend.
TAKING CONTROL
One ot the most fascmabng and
rewarding aspects of owning a
computer is programming it yourself.
In the case of the Amiga,
programming can be even more
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• RGB Monitor.
Whtle lunning an
Amiga through a
leJevision is fine
for games, you
really do need an
RGB monitor rf
you intend using your Amiga at all
seriously. RGB monitors provide far
belter picture quality than a
conventional TV. enabling you to
make out the smallest on-screen text
with ease.
• Acceterator. The Amiga's a pretty
swifl cJ^aracter but it can be made
much taster by fitting a processor
accelerator. Processor accelerators
come in a variety of different flavours
ranging from basic 68020 cards,
right up to processor cards based
around the 5am e processor that
you'll find in the AdOOO, the high-
speed Moioroia 66040,
9j iHkinr fv
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AMOS Professional - probably the
most poweHuL Amiga programming
language In the world?
rewarding stmply because of the
Amiga's impressive hardware and
what that hardware makes posslOle.
Ultra-fast scrolling, sprites and music
are all within the reach of the would-
be programmer, providing of course
that you're equipped with the right
programming tools.
There's a whole range of
different programming languages
aval i able tor the Amiga, which are
suitable for both new and advanced
users. But by far the best
introduction to Amiga programming is
Easy AMOS (from Europress). a very
powerful BASiC-iike language that will
allow even the greenest of beginners
to take advantage of the Amiga's
powerful graphics and sound
hardware within their own programs.
The Easy AMOS manua' <s written in
a tutorial format, so you don't even
need to buy a book on programmmg
to learn the language.
When you feel comfortable with
Easy AMOS programming, you can
then move up to the more advanced
version of AMOS. AMOS
Professional. AMOS Pro uses the
same easy-to-use English-like
command set as its hrtle brother, but
offers unrivalled programming power
that will allow you to harness your
Amiga's hardware. Ultra-fast
scrolling, sprites and interrupt-d riven
music are only a small selection of
the facilities offered by this mould-
breaking language.
Every month we dedicate a whole
section of the magazine to AMOS
programming. Composed and
compiled by my good self, the aptly-
named AMOS Action column covers
many different aspects ot
pnDgramming, ranging from the
fundamentals of programming to
some quite advanced topics that will
teach you all you need to know to
write top-notch games in AMOS
BASIC. I look torv/ard to seeing you
there soon!
events, such as how fast the mouse
pointer moves across the screen, the
maximum length of time between
mouse clicks for a 'double click'
eeleciion to 6© accoptod^ and the key
repeat speed.
• IControl- As we discussed eariier,
some Workbench events can be
performed without having to select
them from a pull-down menu or icon
using hot keys'. The IControl utility
allows you to specify key
combinations for screen swapping
ar>d gadget selection.
• Palette. II the Workbench's black,
white and blue on grey colour palette
doesn't inspire you< then change
them to your own personal choice
using this utility. All the colours can
be selected from the Amiga's full
4096 or 16 J million (for A1200
owners) colour palette.
• WBPattem. The WBPattem utility
enables you to design a regular
pattern which can be used as a
backdrop on the Workbench screen
behind ail the vanous disk icons and
windows. The WBPattem tool
provides a selection of default
patterns, but you can
also design your own
using DPa^nMike
drawing tools.
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• Font The Font
utility is used to
specify the font (in
other words, the text
Style) used for all of
the text which
appears on the
Workbench. Any
standard Amiga bitmapped font you
can find may be used for the
Workbench's pull down menus.
wirvdow titles and icon text.
• Pointer. Feeling artistic? As with
the Workbench background pattern,
you can use the Pointer utility to
modify the appearance and colour
palette of the mouse pointer graphic.
• Screenmode. The Workbench can
be opened in any one of a variety of
different screen modes, which allows
you a potential maximum of 16
colours. The ScreenMode utility
allows you lo select the mode that
you want and the number of colours
to be used.
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PrinterGFX gives you extensive
control over the printing of graphic*
Overscan. Overscanning is a
technique which allows the Amiga to
expand the area used to display text
and graphics so that the visual
'border' around the screen is
removed. The Overscan utility gives
you the ability to stretch the
Workbench in both the horizontal and
vertical directions.
• Printer. Not all printers are created
equal, so you must install a suitable
printer driver if you want the Amiga to
communicate with your printer in its
native tongue. The Printer utility
Simply selects the printer driver to be
used and sets various page
definitions such as the size of the
paper and type of paper which the
printer will be using.
• PrinterGFX. PrinterGFX is another
utility which enables you to fine iune
the way a printer works with your
Amiga. This utility is ufeed to control
different aspects of graphic pnntouls
- the print density, colour correction,
anti-aliasing and so on.
• Serial, tf you intend to use a serial
pnnter on your Amiga, then it is
necessary to configure the Amiga's
serial port so that the protocols used
by the Amiga and your printer match.
The Serial utility enables you to set
the baud rale, stop bits and all the
other serial type parameters that
have made the serial port such a firm
favourite amongst users.
• Time. Although more recent
Amigas don't come with a battery
backed up clock as standard, every ,
Amiga has a system clock that ticks
away whilst your Amiga is tumed on.
If you want to keep your Amiga
njnning on time, then use the Time
utility to set both the lime and date.
AMIGA SHOPPER •ISSUE 22 •FEBRUARY 1 993 HW
B E G I N N^EWS
In thesfl daye of Super Mario
BrAthAK nnri hrlght h\up. hf^dgohog«
called 5onic, the Amiga can «1il|
hold its head up high with the
gdm^ng eHte. Although you'll hardly
ever see games mentioned at alJ \n
Amiga Shopper, we don^t
necessarily believe that playing
games is a bad thmg - we Just think
That there's far more to owning ar\
Amiga than wielding a joystlch.
Don't forget Uim ii itie more
serious aspects of the Amiga
interest you, then Amiga Shopper l^
the magazine to re^d. No oiner
magazine on the markei has The in-
depth tutorials, reviews and features
that we offer. What's more, you'll
never find pages of game reviews
cluttering up vitai pages of the
magaztne. Amiga Shopper is 100%
serious about your Amiga,
GRAPHIC DESIGNS
With such powerful graphics chips at
your disposal, it's not surprising that
the Amiga leads the field in computer
graphics. However, computer
graphics is a very broaO term - the
Amiga's capabilities are so wide-
ranging that you can use them for a
whole host of graphic-related
applications. These range from
straight pixei painting in DPaint. to
digftising, soffd modelling, ray
Just because DPaint is free, doesn't
mean that it isn't any good. DPaint
is still generally regarded as the
best Amiga paint program
tracing, image processing and even
Terminator 2-iike morphing effects.
For most people though, thetr
first experience of the wonders of
computer graphics are with
Electronic Arts' brilliant Deluxe Paint.
which is now bundled with most
Amigae flold. DPaint is a wonderful
program That turns your Amiga
screen into a sort of computerised
easel. Using DPaint and your
Amiga's mouse, you can paint
pictures using the Amiga's full range
of screen modes and colour palettes.
DPaint provides a full range of
Domark's Fantavision Is a tun little
animation program which Is
partlculariy suitable fof children
painting tools which wiii aiiow you to
unleash the artist trapped inside you.
Airbrushes, stencils, perspective and
gradient fills are only a smaif
selection of the powerful painting
tools that DPaint delivers.
Amiga paint
programs usually
come in one of two
flavours - low-
re so tut ion paint
[programs offennga
maximum of 32
colours on screen at
once (Chosen from the
Amiga's 4096 colour
palette) and HAfvl
paint programs. These
ijiter programs aren't
quite as flexible, but
they do allow the
Amiga's entire range
of colours to be
displayed on screen at once. Amiga
A1200 owners can also took fon^vard
to a new version of DPaint. DPaint
AA. which can use the new 256-
colour and HAM 8 screen modes
offered by the new 'AGA' chip set.
GET ANIMATCD
Thanks to the Amiga's ultra-fast
blitter hardware which we were
talking about earlier, you can use
your Amiga to create animations that
would have turned Disney animators
green with envy iittle more than ten
years ago. Just iike the more
pedestnan conventional paint
programs, Amiga animation programs
are available in a variety of different
flavours, indeed, the chances are
thai you already own
one of the most
popular animation
programs available -
DGiuxe Paint.
DPa/nf by itself
can be used to create
some fairly
sophisticated
animations, using a
variety of different
techniques- The most
basic way to create an
animation requires you
to draw each frame
individually - as you
probably already
appreciate, this can
be a very time-consuming task.
DPaint can make the process of
producing an animation considerably
easier though using its powerful
'Brush Animation' and morphing
facilities- Bnjsh animation allows you
to create some quite complex effects
by rotating and moving brushes in 3
dimensions. This facility has been
extensively used to create the sort of
impressive animated logos you see
on TV. Finally, you also have the
facility to create morphed brushes
which will trans'omi from one image
to another.
Many of the 3D modelling and
ray tracing programs that we covef in
^e box in the middle of this page will
also allow you to create animations.
These programs are capable of
producing animations of soiid objects
moving in 3D space. What's more,
most of the hard work is handled tor
you- All you have to do is to specify
where an object should move into 3D
space and the number of frames
required, then the 3D modelling
program does the rest.
Other animation programs worth
checking out include Rombo's
excellent rake-2 video sequencer
and Domark's Fantavfsion (as shown
in the picture above). Fantavision is
a verv simple but very entertaining
animation program that is particUariy
suitable for children - perhaps in an
educational environment.
VIDEO NICETIES
One of the Amiga s greatest selling
points IS lis ability to overlay
graphics onto live video footage. In
other words, you can remove the
background colour from the Amiga's
screen display and replace it with
video footage from a variety of
different sources.
The key to all
this video
Once you've
mastered the art of
2D pixel painting, the next
big step Is 3D modelling and ray
tracing. 3D modelling is a process
which allows you to visualise 3D
scenes by building up the objects that
inhabit those scenes from graphic
'primitives', such as cubes and
spheres. Obviously the 2D screen of
your Amiga monitor cannot display a
true 3D image: modelling programs
get around this limitation using a
technique that Is generally accepted
as the best available - the tri-vlew
editor. As its name suggests, a trl-
view editor gives you three views of
your 3D scene - front, side and top.
What's so impressive about 3D
modelling programs is that the actual
process of generating your 3D scene is
handled automatically by your Amiga
us'ng what the techies call 'rendering'.
The most advanced form of 3D
rendering is ray tracing, a technique
that generates 3D scenes by
calculating how the light produced by a
power is an amazmg box of tricks
called a genlock, Amiga genlocks can
be bought for as iittie £100 these
days, so you'd be surpnsed just how
cheap it is to set up your own video
studio using your Amiga.
Once you're equipped with a
genlock, a wide range of programs
are available that will allow you to
add fancy effects, scroll titles up,
down and across the screen, or you
can even edit video footage on your
Amiga! Using Roctec's RocKey
device, you can even superimpose
live video on lop of the Amiga's
graphics {the opposite effect to a
genlock), enabling you to produce
your own weather forecasts and
weird rock videos-
If you want to keep in touch with
what's really happening in the world
of Amiga video work, then Amiga
Shopper is the magazine to read.
Every month you'll find a column
wrrtten by our resident video expert,
Gary Whiteley. Gary has been
involved in the video industiv for an
almost embarrassing numtier of
years, so you can be sure that he
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knows d thing or two about genlocks
and the plethora of other Amigs
video products around.
PUBUSH AND BE...
If there is Dr>e aoplication that the
arrival of low-cost high-performance
personal rompiJlPr^i has defrvereO to
the average user. )t must surely be
deshroo piJtilKiiliig. A desktop
publishing program allows you to
The Amiga offers a very
JmpressFve range of desktop
publishing programs, but the b<g two
are undoubtedly Gold Disf^'a
Professional Page 3.0 and Soft-
Logik^s PagGStream 2.2. Both these
programs can output high-quality DTP
documents to any pnnter supported
by the Amiga including dot matrix,
Inkjet and laser pnmers. Through the
use of 'outline' fonts, text is pnnted
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Even if you've never played with
& ray tracing program before,
chances are that you've already
Gesn what ray tracing [s capable
of -films such as The
Lawnmower Man and Terminator
2 use ray tracing extensively to
produce the amazing computer
graphics that have become a major
acJiing point. A wide variety of ray
tracing programs are available for the
Amiga, but the two market leaders are
Digitai Multimedia's /mag/ne2and
Alternative Image's Real 3D.
Another very fascinating graphic
technique is mofphing'. the latest
craze in computer graphics, Morphing
IS a very powerful technique that
allows you to transform one graphic
into another, w)th the computer
create brochures, fanzines, posters
and evpn mogozinos, complete with
high-quality text and illustrations.
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example of what desktop publishing
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basedi desktop publishing system,
Quarh XPress.
Explore the fascinating world of 3D
graphics with Imagine 2
generating the images in between.
While seen more and more in TV ads
nowadays, possibly the best-known
use of morphing is to be found in the
film Terminator 2. Morphing was used
to create the many scenes where the
evil Terminator, the T-1000. moulds
rtself into a variety of different
shapes. Several Amiga morphing
programs are already available
including ASDGs MorphPlus and
GVPsC/ne/Worph,
at the highest resolution of your
printer, so even the naffest of 9'pins
is capable of some pretty impressive
results. For the ultimate m quality,
however, both programs aiso fully
support the mighty
PostScnpt language.
For beginners.
Gold Disk's
PageSefrer^ls worth
considering. Based
around Gold Disk's
own Protessional
Page. PageSeiter 2
has been specifically
designed with the
beginner in nund. it
uses the same
outline font
technology to give
excellent and
unrivalled print quality
arxj is also able to support
bitmapped pictures and structured
*l!u3tTation5 withm documents.
If you want to learn the subtle art
of desktop publishingn then Amiga
Shopper is the magazine to read.
Every month we feature a desktop
publishing column written by our
resident DTP guru, Jeff Walker. Jeff
produces a fanzine called JAM using
an Amiga running Professional Page,
so he's more than qualified to
comment on the pros arwi cons of
Amiga DTP in a working environment,
BUSINESS MATTIRS
De^^pitji iK ohvious tlair for the more
creative and artistic applications, the
Amjga is also a pretty capable
tjusiness machine. Whether you want
to keep your accounts in order, keep
track of business associates and
friends or wnte a
avalfable, but if you wish to grab your
own, you just need a sound sampler.
A sound sampler is simply a
device thai converts an audio signal
from any CD player, tape deck or
microphone into a digital fonnat that
can be processed and then played
back in real lime by your Amiga.
Compared to the price of
professional samplers, Amiga
samplers are a steal - starting at
around £20, you can sampie sounds
without breaking the bank. Even il
you're not particularly musical,
samplers can also be a source of
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software available
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processor, the
spreadsheet and
the database, all of which are
commonly available on the Amiga.
The Amiga's powerful graphic
capabilities have spawned a new
generation of word processors that
steal more than a couple of good
idedb rmin desktop publishing
systems- These new word
publishers' (also known as
'document processors') offer the raw
text editing power that
has made word
processors so popular
combined with the son
of page layout power
that was previously
restricted to desktop
pubiishing systems.
Not only can you use
any 5iondard Amiga
font within your
documents, but
nowadays word
publisher programs
even allow you to
incorporate pictures
into the bargain.
Word processors can do a lot
more than just process words. I' your
spelling or vocabulary is not quite up
to scratch, then the Amiga can even
help with these. Word processors
such as Amors excellent Protext 5.5
(which, incidentally, was used to
wnte this feature) offer spell
checking facilities and even a
thesaurus, a handy utility which can
suggest alternatives to a given word.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
if there's a tune just waiting to burst
out of you, then the Amiga is the
machine to own. Thanks to its
advanced sound hardware, you can
write music on your Amiga that uses
sounds sampled from the real world.
A huge library of sampled sounds is
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By attaching an inexpenstve MIDI
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samplers, A wide range of MIDI
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AT-A-GLANCE
AlOOO 41
AeMleratorft 3G. 4B. 49
Accountlnfi piogiams 44
AGA 4S
ACnuc .36, &3
Airily JD03 34, 40
AR«XA 46, 63
AiCII 3S
Assembly IrtMguaEe 3fi
BASIC 41
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Chip RAM 35, 36, 49. 53
C ol orFo nt4 48
Colour prlntinfi 45
CompHore 40
Compu^apnic fonts 39, 36. 41
Copv « 41
Data bases 44
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Ed 40
Past RAM 3S, 49
Gonlock 49,52
Greek characters 35
Hand »c anners 36
Hard drives 34. 35. 36. 37, 40
High donilt^ floppiBfl 48
Interlace 52
Klchstart 34,37
Macros 44
MIDI 36, 46. 53
Music notation 48
Patch editofs 49
Paula 35
PC 35
Portable Amigas 48
PostScript 36
Pri nter d ri ve rs - 34
Printing graphics ,....37
RAM 35,45
Russian fonts 35
SCSI 49,52
Sequencers 44, 45
Spectrum emulator 37
St a rt u o-seq uence 34, 35
Tower systems 49
Viruses 40, 52
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STARTUP-WHAH
I hove hod my A500t
for about three
months now, but
there Is one thing still
puzzling me: the Startup^equence.
What Is It? 1 know from the title
that it is a series of events that
happen when the Amiga is booted -
but what are these events? What
would I use It for? What sort of
things go Into making up a Startup-
sequence? I would be grateful If you
could explain this or run an article
for bogfnneFB Uko myteH. AIad, can
you recommend a book suitable tor
beginners like myself.
K Sargeson
Hull
You are quite correct in assuming
the Startup-sequence is a sel of
events that happen when the Amiga
is booted (switched on or reset). The
file fs an AmIgaDOS pfogram - more
correctly called a script. You can
take a InoU at what il rtOPS by tyorog
the following command from Shell (or
Workbench's EXECUTE COMMAND):
ED S: Start up -BOQuence
These "scripts' vary widely in content
from disk lo disk and wilh different
Workbench revisions, so it would be
Inappropriate for me to try and
explain any particular one in detail at
this atogo. I hove covorod Startup
sequences in the regular AmigaDOS
columnn but perhaps it is time I
revisited them for newer readers.
Look out for this in a future issue.
There are quHe a few Oeginners"
boohs around today. The cheapest is
LiWe Blue Worf^bench 2 Booi<
published by f^uma at £14.95. But
four titles from the Bruce Smith
Books fold might be more up your
street; Mastering Amiga Beginners
and Mastering Amiga Woriibench 2
cover the early days. Mastering
^m^gsDOS 2 Volumes 1 (tutorial) and
2 (reference) will lead you through
the more complex stuff - including
Startup-sequences. You can get in
touch with Bruce Smith Books on v
0923 894355, MS
DICONIX DRIVER
I have a DiconU 150+
printer, but it did not
come with a printer
drtver. I rang Kodak,
but was told the company could not
supply one.
Can you telf me where I can get
hold of one?
Colin Smith
Brierfleld
Lanca
There isn't a proper one, but JAM
{■B 0895 274449) has a 'hacked^
EpsonX driver on its Printer Drivers
disk thai actually worths much better
with the Dicontx 150 and 300 than
EpsonX itself. JW
LEGAL EAGLf
r"~I ^ I plan to upgrade to
:r\. Workbench 2.04 In
the very near future.
If 1 were to purchase
iust the Klckstart ROM (Instead of
the whole Enhancer pack), would It
t>e legal to copy the Workbench
disks from a friend or will 1 be
infringing Commodore's copyright?
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information interchange. It is the data
storage method commonly used when we type text files and enables
data to be exchanged between different computers.
Klckstart - the most basic and central part of We Amiga's operating
system. These days it ts held in ROM, so that it \s immediately present
when the machine is switched on.
Printer driver - a program that sits inbetween any applications program
producing output and the printer. It converts any codes descnbing text
and graphics fonnat into a form suitable for a specific pnnter.
Startup-sequence - a program which is executed every time the Amiga is
switched on and after every reset, it sets up the system, and may be
customised by those who have unusual hard or software requirements.
Some adverts claim that the
Workbench 2.04 pack Includes four
disks - Workbench, Ewtras, Fonts
and install- What exactly does the
install disk contain?
I also plan to buy a 52Mb GVP
hard disk for my A500. If 1 upgrade
to 2.04, will it still autoboot under
both 1,3 and 2.04? (J intend to boy
a ROM switcher too). Does the drive
automatically know which version of
Workbench to use or will I only be
able to autoboot under a single
version of Workbench?
Tim Jelvea
Countesthorpe
Wcester
Technically it is illegal to copy a
friend's Workbench disks, although I
doubt very much indeed that you'd
receive a visit from the boys m blue.
Although you may be tempted to
Simply buy a ROM chip, i really would
advise you to buy Ihe entire
Enhancer pack yourself. The manual
that comes wUh Workbench 2.04 is
a vast improvement on the
Workbench manuals of old, so it's
worth spending the extra cash for
this alone.
Four disks? Not as far as I'm
aware. My Amiga B2CX)0 only came
with three Workbench 2.04 system
disks - Workbenchn Extras and Fonts
- so Tm not quite sure where they
got the extra disk from. It could be
that they're using Workbench 2,0
disks from an early A3000. Because
these machines used pre-2,04
versions of the operating system,
they came with an Install disk which
4^ AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 32 • FEBRUARY 1 993
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mmt
allowed the new operating system
files to be installed onto a hard dish
dnve automatically.
The GVP Impact Series 2 drive
(and 1nrie**d any autoDoot-compatible
hard drive) witt autoboot fine un(ier
both Wort^bench 2,04 and
Workbench 1,3, Unfortunately,
getting a hard drive to boot up under
the correct version of Wnrkbench
requires a fair bit of messing about
with Startup- sequences and re-
flSBlfinments. I've got a ROM
switcher inside my machine too and
all Tvc dor« r^ to uouv A minimal
amount of Workbench 1.3 system
filea to a directory colled WBl.S'.
When the Onvc boots up^ the system
checks which Klckstart version is
insUlled using the Version'
command and the Startup-sequence
then executes the appropriate script
filG - there's one for 1.3 that re-
assigns everything to the 13
Workbench fries and another one
Which does the same for 2.04. M
GREEKS BEARING GIRS
How do I get my
Amstiad D MP-3 160
printer and Protext
$r52io print Greek
characters, as used in engineering
sdence end maths?
I nan got thorn to appear on ttic
screen, but for some reason they
will not print out. Should I use
another printer driver, or should I
change the printer?
PTodd
Swindon
The Greek characters are part of the
IBM character set. so your DMP-
3160 should first be swdched to this
mode - check your Tnanuai for DIP
switch settings and the character set
containing the Greek symbols, and
set the switches accordingly.
If tho DMP-3160 contains a
StarWard IBM character set (which it
probably does), then the Greek
symbols wiH be charaaers 224 to
239 inclusive-
The trouble is that the Amiga's
character set isn't IBM, and the
Amiga characters from 224 to 239
are mainly foreign letters. But using
the DMP 3160 in IBM mode, and the
IBM 9-pin Protext pnntet driver, if you
use these foreign characters orv
screen they will print the standard
Greek symbols in the IBM character
set. The a-grave character on screen,
for example, will pnnt the Greek
alpha symbol to the printer; a-acute
will pnnt beta.
The easiest way to get at these
foreign characters is Via the
Text/ Choose Character requester.
The second froin bottom row
contains the characters rn question.
The far left symbol in that row fa-
grave) is character 224, the far nght
character {i-o miaul) is character 239.
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
HMy AlOOO's sound has died. I have checked for loose
Integrated circuits. Ail appeared OK. Is It possltjie that the
chip responsible for sound Is duff? If so, wfitch chip needs
replacing? 1 don t think It b the monitor that Is a fault as It
amplifies other Input sources adequately. With the volume control on the
monitor turned full up, there Is barely an audible squeak from the
computer. Any help and suggestions would be appreciatod-
I also have a problem with my NEC P2200 printer. It is about 3.5 years
old. Apart from the usual ribbons, and a new print head last year It hat
given no problems. Howaver, over the last year or so I have noticed a
distinct fading of print on the rl^t hand side of the page particularly on
graphics. I suspect my printer requires service and mechanical alignment.
What do you think? If so. do you know of any authorised NEC service
centres or have you a phone or fax number for NEC themselves in the UK7
A Bradley » Washingborou^, Lincoln
Tr>e Paula chip Is the one responsible for sound on the Amiga, but there are
several other components the sound passes through on the way to the audio
outputs, and any of these could have blown. Check out the Paula chip first.
as it's easy to swap over.
NEC UK can be contacted on tr OSl-993 8111 ^London). » 061-834
6824 (MaFKhester) or o 021-631 3468 (Birmingham). JR
Match these up wrlh IBM characters
224-239 in your pnnter manual.
Using ProreJtT'S SYMBOL
command it is possible to redefine
the bitmaps (character matrix) of
these characters so that they dispiay
the correct characters on screen as
weii as 10 the pnmer. Pages 190 and
191 of the Protext manual deal with
the SYMBOL command.
Redefining character matrices is
a bit of a "techie' process; you have
to learn about binary and
hexadecimal numbers to start with,
and It would take at least one long
article to teach you how to do it.
Perhaps that's something we can do
another month - in the meantime
there's a chap in Cornwall who has
been redefining character sets for
Protext like there's no tomorrow.
He's currently got Greek. Croatian.
Goat. Cyrillic, Russian, Turt(ish»
Yugoslavian and Hungahan, and he's
working on a whoie bunch of others.
His name is Graham Martin^ and you
can contact him at: 21 Dracaena
Avenue. Falmouth. Cornwall TRll
2ER '0326 317287. JW
PC TO AMIGA
F'^7" ^ My friend has got a
Li^ I PC and we are
l^^^^ii looking for a public
I^^^^U domain program to
transfer ASCII files so that we may
exchange programs^ Can this be
done? Tve heard of a program called
MessyStD tl - could this be used? I
live In Holland and I'm not sure how
to order from UK PD libraries^ Can I
use a Eurocheque?
M Camporelll
Sllvolde
Holland
MessySID will do exacUy what you
want and there are a number of other
PC/Amiga file transfer utilities
available as well (including programs
like MultiDOS, and early versions of
CrossDOS, which have been given
away on various magazine disks). All
PD libraries carry these types Of
ulilittes andn if you do chose to order
from UK sources. Eurocheque
payments will be fine. PAO
DONT STOP NOW!
a) I am currently
customising my copy
of Won^ bench. So tar I
have set It up to
display a DPaint screen using the
itttplay utility and I want to get it to
play an OctaAfed tune. \ can get It
to play the tune after Display has
closed, but is there any way I can
get the two programs to run at the
same time?
b) If I bought a 2Mb F?AM
expansion would I be able to make
longer animations in DPaint 3?
Would such an expansion be Chip or
Fast RAM?
Allstair Metcalfe
Balerno
Edinburgh
a) This should be quite simple to hx,
because the Amiga is capable of
running many programs at once. You
should just use the RUN command
from AmigaOOS to start them - like
this:
RUN <HIL: >KIL: Display ...
RUN <NIL: >inLr HEDPlayer ...
(put your fTenames and options after
the Display and MEDPIayer
commandSn as usual).
The additional <NIL: >NIL: will
allow the initial SheH window to close
when the Startup- sequence
completes. This is not absolutely
necessaty for every command but It
won't do any harm. However, this
sort of multitasking can cause
problems as two commands try to
load things from disk at the same
time - you'll notice this as a lot of
additional disk 'grinding. A better
solution is to make WAIT resident
early in the script and make
AmigaDOS wail between commands:
RESIEffiNT CiWAIT
FUN <NIL! >HIL: Display ...
WAIT 5 seca
RUN <NIL; >NIL: HEDPlayer ...
WAIT 5 aeCB
You will have to experiment with the
exact liming of these commands -
but this will improve the efficiency of
the boot sequence considerably.
b} Yes - the more memory you
have the better. A 2Mb RAM
expansion on any A500 machine v^iii
be Fast memory only. MS
RUSSIAN OimiNES
Is there a Russian
font available In
Compugraphic format
which 1 can use with
Professlonat Page 2.17 And Is there
a higtt quality program that will
convert bitmap fonts Into
Compugraphic outline fonts? Lastly,
Is the Font Manager program that
comes with Professional Page 3 the
same as the one that comes with
Professionat Draw 3?
Vlleyn Lul
Brussels
Belgium
Not that I know of; not that I know of;
and exactly the same, in that order.
But there must be an Adobe Type 1
Russian typeface out there
somewhere. If you can find it, you
can use Font Manner to convert it to
Compugraphic format. I recommend
you contact dealers who sell Adobe
Type 1 fonts and keep asking. JW
MEMORY MATTERS
HI own an A500 with
1Mb of memory which
I purchased 6 months
ago. The problem that
I have concerns the memory.
a) Is the 1Mb of memory that I
have split Into half a megabyte of
Chip RAM and half a megabyte of
Fast RAM or Is It a\\ Chip RAM?
b) If I purchase a GVP hard drive
with 2Mb of RAM. what would the
total amount of Chip and Fast RAM
be In my machine?
c) Is there a PD program
available that will tell me what chip
set I have inside my Amiga? I would
rather buy a program than rip my
machine apart.
P Ashworth
Fareham
HanU
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 32 • FEBRUARY 199^ 4B
a} Having checked out the
mformauon you supplied, it seems to
me mat your macTime is equipped
with half a megabyte of Chip RAM
and a half megabyte of Fast RAM.
b) If you purchase 3 GVP drive
with 2Mb installed, you'll still have
harr a megabyte of Criip RAM but
2.5Mt} of Fast RAM. tt seems likely,
howewr. thai your macTiine is
equipped with the ECS Agnus chip. If
this is the case, then it would be
P9rt&ciiy possioie to have the Ucdrd
modirieo t)y a commodore-approved
(^rvicd cvnut^ m ^wa d full iiieg.4byte
of Chip RAM.
c) There sure is! What you need
Is a copy of Ihe PD program Systnfo
wrillen hi NiC Wll50n. Systnfo will lell
you everything you rw*eO lo know
about the interr^als of your machine
plua a lot more than you'N probably
ever r»eed to know. It's available on
Fr^d Fisfi di&l^ 642 whtch ciin bo
obtained from just about Pvery PD
Bupplier, and al&o appeared on last
month's fi^migo Qtiopper Snufcware
Coiiection cover disk. JH
MIDI PLUS?
I have had my A50D
jVH^ for aeven months and
have recently
upgraded to an
Al^o Plus, suite I've kept my old
machine i wondered whether It
would be possible to use It as a
MIDI Instrument when my AISOO^
Is running programs like OctaMED?
Simon Ouzman
Upper Norwood
London
There are plenty of programs
including OcfaMEDthat can play a
sampled sound voice when they
receive MIDI data. All you need to do
ia lo irnK Iho two mochinc^ via two
MTDI interfaces and arrange tor the
A1500+ to send MIDI data to the
A600 as well as playing its own
internal sounc)s. PAO
AS01 ANY GOOD?
Krm thinking of
upgrBdlng my A5D0 to
about 3Mb. I already
have a very old A 501
upgrade which la bound to be too
slow lo use as Chip RAM. If I
upgrade to a Fat Agnus would I be
able to u&e the memory In the new
expansion as more Chip RAM or
would I have to change nry A501 to
a more modem clone?
Phil Poole
Oownend
Bristol
Try it and see. Some older A501
clones don t work too well as Chip
RAM, but I've not had problems with
genuine CBM A501s, even old ones.
Jf you have problems with the
machine crashing after you have
RANDOM RESETTING
^■V^^Vl My computer seems to reset ttself after baTng on for
^^^ ^^ anything from five minutes to four hours- i don't get any
^^ ^^H warning - the screen turns grey and It reboots- I have
\^ ^^^ removed everything and checked my disks for viruses - but
Ihey are ail clean. What now?
Paul Chapman, Stanley. Co Durham
Errm, It's broken. The most likely cause of this is a power glitch -if the
machine is overheating the time would be more consistent and il would
probably stay off until tt had cooled down, I will hazard a guess that Che fault
IS a loose connecUon or cracked board where the PSU (Power Supply Unit)
plug enters tr>e case - Tve repaired several ASOOs with similar faults. Try
wobbling the PSU lead around a little and see if that causes the machine to
reset. Also, try )eaving the machine on, but unattended for a couple of hours.
If you boot a disk first, and remove it before you leave, you'll be able to see
if the machine has reset. If all else fails, get the machir^ serviced by a
Commodore accredited dealer. MS
J
configured for 1Mb chip ram, then
buy a replacement card - they're very
cheap now. JR
SNATEDISH UST
a) Why do
Co mpu graphic fonts
come out better on
both Professional
Page and PageStream using non-
PostScript dot-matrix printers than
standard PostScript fonts?
t) How can J create a
PostScript output file from a
document making use of
Compugraphlc fonts?
c) Why Is the data transfer from
the Amiga to any non-PostScript
printer so terribly slow? It can be up
to five minutes transfer time for an
A4 page In PageStream, even with a
68030 processor.
d) Is Power Computing's colour
hand scanner any good?
Per Swantesson
Umea
Sweden
a) The hints' contained within the
definition of Compugraphlc typefaces
are used when output lo dot-matrix
printers, whereas the hints for
PostScript fonts are created by the
PostScript device itself, so are not
used when output to non-PostScript
pfinters- This should only make a
difference lo point sizes under at>out
lOpi. though This wkii depend on the
design of the typeface.
b) In Pfofessfona/ Page's Output
PostScript requester, click on Uie
Downloadable Fonts button before
'pnmmg' your PoslScnpt file. For this
to work the PostScnpt font definition
for each font in the document
(except those found in standard
PostScript devices) needs to be in
the CGFonls:PS directory. This
'.psfonf file can be generated from
the Compugraphlc data by the
CreateFont program that is supplied
with Gold Disk's Compugraphic fonts
packs, or from the Adol>e Type 1
data by the Font Manager program
supplied with Profess/o/ia/ Page 3
and ProDraw 3.
c) Simply because it lakes the
program that long to generate the
bitmap that has to be sent to the
printer, for the printer device to pass
all that data to the printer, and the
printer to actually print the data. A
68030 processor will only speed up
the printing process significantly if
you have some 32-bii memory as
well, but olhen^ise the speed
increase is negligible (only about 25-
30 percent quicker),
d) I don't know. Every time I
phone Power Computing and ask
about it they say "Ready in two
weeks". If and when it is ever
released, we will review it. JW
MAGAZINE MAYHEM
r^I 1| I have an A500 Plus
i/\. S with two drives and I
write disk magazines
containing articles
and programs using Echos In the
Startup-sequence and Aliases so
that only a number has to be typed
to load a program. I would like to
make the whole thing more
professional, and so I would
appreciate your answers to the
following quest ions -
a) How can I display an IFF
picture as a menu (preferably In
DOS} and access the programs by
pressing function keys ( In a similar
manner to that ot the coverdlsks on
the front of your sister magailnOt
Amiga Powei)7
b) How do I create my own
System-configuration containing a
custom pointer and screen colours
tor use on my own boot-disks?
c) I am thinking of saving up for
the Power Computing hand scanner
and I would like to know how the
level of light within a particular
room will effect the quality of scans.
Darren Kemp
Leeds
West Yorkshire
a) All you need ^s a PD program
called MagPages which is available
on Fred Fish disk 684. tt allows you
to create interactive multimedia- 1 ike
front ernJs for disk magazines that
combine graphics and lent within the
same screen.
b) tt you>e creating a disk
magazine that can also be mn on a
1.3-based Amiga, then you really
need to get your hands on a copy of
the 1.3 Pfeterences program (you'll
find this on a DPami program disk or
similar). Simply set up the colours
and pointer that you want, save the
settings off to disk and then copy the
file called System-configuration in the
DEVS: directory across into the DEVS
directory of your disk magazme.
c) Hand scanners don't need
external lighting to scan an image,
so its perfectly possible to scan an
image in complete darkness. Hand
scanners produce their own high
intensity hght which is directt^d at tha
image being scanned. JH
RETIRING BOOK
i would like to
program the Amiga In
machine code for
games and have been
trying te get a copy of the Abacus
Amiga Systems Programmers Guide
lout It Is out of print. Any Ideas on
where I can get a copy?
Michael Addison
Cannock
Stafford
No, I've tried quite a few of the larger
book suppliers without success and
the only other thing I can suggest is
to try a classified advert, either in
Amiga Shopper or one of the
magazines that specialise in private
user ads (such as Micro Computer
Mart). PAO
HARD DISK RECOVERY
^^^^^01 I useaDataflyerSCSI
^B ^^ Interface and 52Mb
^^ ^^^ Quantum Hard Drive
k^^^^l on an Amiga 1500. In
a distracted moment while trying tO
initialise a disk on DFO:. L
accidentalJy double clicked on the
OHO: Icon and said yes to format
and almost immediately stopped the
Initialisation process by switching
the power off. The screen message
at the time was "verifying ...",
This act seems to have erased
some or all of the flies and the DHO:
icon has disappeared from the
screen. I have had to use a
Mountllst and the Mount command
to reHdentIfy the drive to the system
as DHO: The cd dhO: and dir dhO:
commands return the message "Not
a DOS disk". On switching on I t>ave
to wait while It attempts to boot
from the hard drive and defaults to
dfl: Can you please let me know of
a suitable utility, preferably PD
04 AMIGA 5H0PPER t I55UE 22 • FEBRUARY 1 993
M^Mj
and/or other means (or some code.
C. or assembler) of recovering or
unerasmg the filos.
Harold Wicks
Hemol Hempstead
Herts
UntortunaTely 1 think jt's too lale to
get any tiles back from your
DaiflTlyer. The Darafiypr ui^es a non-
standard disk format which many
disk repaif programs wont
unOersiand. and your only option now
15 to reformat the drive.
You may wanl ro try some public
domain ulilities like DfskSaiv. or
even the dreaded Commodore
DiskDocior that is (was?) \r> your C
directory. You hoven'l got much to
lo5c if they don't wor»i. JR
PRINTING GRAPHICS
My printer, the Citizen
&\Ai\H 9. prints word*
perfectly, but I am
[iu77led as to how to
prFnt graphics, particularly from
Deluxe P^'mt 1 have studied the
manual to no avail. Can you please
give nw a atep-tiy'atcp layman's
guide to the printing of graphics?
Mervyn Lee
Calcot
Berhs
Load the picture into Deluxe Paint.
Select Pnnt from the Picture menu-
Click on the Print button. What could
be simpler? If you are having a
particular pnnting problem, Mervyn,
then you'll have lo be a lot more
specific about the problem, JW
HARD PROBLfMS
^^f ^% My hard disk was
^^^ ^^ formatted using the
^^ ^^M Nexus software and
W^L^^^^ p:irtltlonDd into
system 2.0 (3.5Mb) and work (96
5Mb). The disk works correctly at
boot up and programs can be run
from It. However, when running
HDToolbox from the 2.0 Install disk
an error message "Driver not
installed" Is displayed, how is it
possible to use this software with
my hard disk?
MJL Enoch
South port
Merseyftlde
Simple, Select HDToolbox. choose
INFORMATION from the workbench
menu, select NEW tool type, type (o:
SCSI_DEVICE_EttME»NEXUS , DEVICE
press retomn click on SAVE, ar^d then
double-click HOToofbox lo run.
Owners of other SCSI cards can
use tho oxcollont Commodore
software in exactly the same way by
substituting their own device driver
name for NEXUS.DEVICE in the line
above, as follows;
• A590/A2091/A3000 - No line is
needed; it will work with these
controllers automatically
• All GVP controllers -
SCSI .ISVlCE_flhME=<;vp8cai , device
• Microbotics Hardframe -
SCSI _DEVlCE_NAME=haj:d frame J
• ICD 2000/2080 -
SCSI_DEVTCE„NAME-icddi9k J
-device
V IVS Trumpcard ^
SCSI._DEVICE_NWffi=lvs_scsi J
.fJevice
• Supra -
SCSI IEVTCE_KRME=supradirect J
.device
Owners of other coniroHers
should look in their manuals to find
the right device name, JR
SPECTRUM UPGRADE
^ I am considering
PT/ ^ buying an Amiga but L
^\^^U am having some
difficulty in finding the
basic Information I need written In
simple English, I presently own a
Spectrum +2. If I was to buy an
Amiga with a PD Spectrum
Emulator, will I stiJI be able to run
all of my cassette-based Spectrum
games? Also, where can I find an
idiot s guide that will help my to
decide which packages to buy?
K Matthews
Glen bum
Paisley
As far as Vm aware, the PO
Spectrum emulator runs the vast
majority of Spectrum games without
problems. You wnll. however, have to
buy a sound sampler if you wish to
load games from cassette. Don't
worry about the cost, though - sound
samplers can be bought for little
more than £20 these days (you could
check out MicroDeai's new Rave
Sampler, for exampie).
As for the idiot's guide, why not
check out Phi! Sooth's book
Mastering Amiga Beginners which is
available most good book stockists,
it's packed with everything you need
to know to get started with the Amiga
and covers a wide variety of different
applications including music,
graphics, comms and programming.
Another good read is Amiga Shopper
of course - every month we bnng you
possibly the most comprehensive
(and certainly the most authoritative)
coverage of what's going on jn the
Amiga marketplace. JH
OH, T .2 IS ME
My Amiga system Is
an all-in-one business
pack purchased
shortly after the A500
was introduced. It now consists of
1.2 Kickstart and Workbench, 1Mb
RAM. monitor, printer, second disk
drive and my most recent
acquisition, a GVP HD84..
I use my Amiga mainly In my
work as an insurance agent with
Scribble and Superbase. Can you
sort out the following for me:
a) As I cannot boot from hard
drive with Workbench 1.2 (most ads
suggest 1.3} what do I need on my
tioot floppy?
t)) Is it worth upgrading to
Workbench 1.3 or Workbench 27 I
am happy and familiar with my
existing system and I don't want to
open the machine. It I do upgrade,
do I Just need to change the
Kickstart chip or will 1 have to
change other chips too? It seems
you have fo^otten that Worktiench
1.2 users still oMistl How soon will
H be before you assume everyone
has upgraded to Workbench 2? And
what are the benefits of having
Workbench 2. if any?
C) Some of the letters In Amiga
Answ&rs suggest that people have
both 1.3 and 2.04 Workbench on
their hard drive - 1 would like to
know why this Is necessary.
d) What Is the best printer
driver for my Citizen LSPllO?
e) I have all the Workbench 2
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Compugraphic fonts - rather than a simple bit mapped image of each
character, which grows more jagged with magnification, a Compugraphic
font represents the shape of each character within the font as a
mathematical equation, so that as tfie magnrtude of the character Is
vaned in printing the result always looks smooth.
Chip RAM - the area of the Amiga's memory directly accessible hy the
custom graphics and sound chips. The larger the quantity of Chip RAM
available, the farger the sound samples that can be played, and the
larger and smoother the animatTons and graphics screens that can be
displayed- Currently the maximum possible Chip RAM is 2Mb. -
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface is a standard devised by
electronic instalment manufacturers, allowing a number of synthesisers
to be controlled by a sir^gle keytwanj or sequencer.
disks supplied with the AGOO. Why
doesn^t HDBackup wotkt
Mr CP Parker
Reading
Berks
a) The software suppTied with ttie
GVP should have been able to
perform this task for you. Although I
have used a GVP, I have never
encountered it on a Kickstart 1.2
machine, so I can be of little help to
you \\ere. Basically^ since the hard
drive will automount', all you need is
a standard workbench floppy with a
special Startup-seriuence and a
properly-cofifigured hard disk. Sir^ce
you are using Workbench 1.2. you'll
need to 'activate' the CLI first using
the Preferences program. Assuming
your GVP mounts as DHO. copy the
original Worktiench from floppy with
this command:
COPY SYS: EHO: all
Now edit the St;%rTu[> sequence on a
copy (yes, a copy) of your boot
floppy, so it looks like this:
ASSICM SYS: DHO:
ASSIGN DEVS: SYSiDevs
ASSIGN LIBS: SYS: Libs
ASSICW L: SYSiL
ASSK^J POtn'S: SYS: Fonts
ASSIGN 5: SYS:S
ASSIGN C: SYSiC
EXECUTE S ! Start up -sequence
You'll have to do this from the CLI
using the following command:
ED S : startup -a egtience
Before you do that though, you
should read through the answer to
the next queslion.
b) So many questions ^ so little
room. The answer is progress - we
don't naturally assume that everyone
has upgraded to Workbench 2 or
Workbench 1,3, but, to be fair, a lot
of people have. Workbench 1,3 Is an
entirely software-based upgrade, and
makes a lot of improvements to the
system as a whole - although you'll
only notice some of these if you also
upgrade to Kickstart 1.3 - and this
will mean opening the machine and
changing a ROM. However, the first
thing you'll notice is the machine will
instantly boot from hard disk[
The GVP IS very fast and your
machine will become a lot more
usable. The mam Workbench (the
menus and screen colours and such)
does not change with Kickstart 1.3
so you cou*d still use the Workbench
1.2 disk set- Upgrading to Kickstart
2-04 IS a much better option,
although I suspect this will need
some minor surgery on the board.
You will not have to change any other
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chips unless you really want to,
although again, this is someining
worth coiisfdeting if you are having
ihe maGhifi9 oggngd uq In any case.
Either way, ft is better to have these
upgrades comoleled by a competent
repair outfit - and maKe sure you
«hecU th© QQsis first.
With Kickfitart 2 and a comoleTe
Workbench 2.1, your machine will
nol only look but also feel different;
and Kicketarr 2 hs notiteahly faster
than 1,3, By the way, a lot of books
strll cover AmigaDOS 1.2 and 1.3,
Mastenng AmfgaDOS 2. for instance,
covers all versions cA AmigaDOS
from 1.2 currently up to 2.04 and will
shortly be updated to AmigaDOS 3
The Liitie Red Workbench Book also
covers specifically AmigaDOS 1.3
and Workbench 1.3, As far as
inagaztnes are concerned, although I
cannot speak for individual editors, I
vvvuld fiuess that few people will
assume 1.3 dead tor some lime yet
- the majonty of ROM-based Amigas
in the world are still running it.
c) It rather depends on how the
machine has been configured. Some
people do this because they have a
ROM sharer - that's a little gadget
v^hich allows you to select which
Kic^start to boot from. 1 he best
compromise is 1,3 and 2.04 - both
of which support the auto-booting
facility of your GVP hard drive. You
can gel one of these fitted to the
machine while you have the other
modifications made.,,
d) No idea. Try EpsonXOId or
EpsonX[CBM_MPS12501, Unless of
course anyone out there has any
better suggestions..,
e) Probably because you don't
have an A600 - which comes fitted
wim JMCKsiaa 2. ma therefore, the
ROM-based libraries HDBackup
e^pects to find- To be frank, I have
only had cause to use the program
twice and on both those occasions I
wish I hadn't. If you want a decent
hard disk backup try AmiBack or
Quarterback. By the way. copying
those A600 disks infringes copyright
- because they were not supplied
with, or for, your machine, MS
COMPILE TRIALS
I tiav© recently
bought Mastering
Amiga C and am
having trouble using
the NorthC compiler to compile my
programs. If, for example, I try to
compile the following program:
ttinclude <etdio.h>
luainO
I
float area;
area-circle_area ( 10 . 0) ?
printf ("%B'&f\n"."aT'eH is J
",area);
)
float clrcle_areaffloat J
radiuB )
{
float product;
products 3 .14*radius*radiusj
retam (product) ;
>
I get these sort of error messages:
dfl:problem.G line 11 Error expect )
dfl:problem.c line 17 Error expect \
Please help because these function
problems are becoming a pain!
Richard Bagshaw
Hucknall
Nottingham
Printed examples in Mastenng Amiga
Care coded in ANSI C, which is the
new style C supported by all major
compilers. The Oifferences between
this form and the older K&R style
(that NofthC expects) are dealt with
in the compiler' notes that are
present on the disk which
accompanies the book There was not
enough space on the disk to put
both K&R and ANSI C example
forms, so users of K&R style
compilers have to make some code
alterations. These again are outlined
in the compiler notes disk document.
As far as your above example is
concerned you need to alter the
initial lines of the function definition.
and then declare the function as
returning a float value. This modified
form will compile under NorthC
without error:
#include <etdio.h>
roainO
{
float area;
float circle_flrea() ;
/• K&R style declaration */
area=clrcle. areaClO.O);
printf ("96B^f\n"."area ia J
'',area);
>
float clrcle_area(radius>
float radius;
/• old K&R style definition */
I
float product;
product^3 .14*radiuB'radiuB;
return ( product ) ;
}
PAO
PRIVILEGED USER
I own an A500 Plus
with 2Mb of Chip
RAM and one internal
drive. \ am
considering the purchase of a 52Mb
GVP Series 2 hard drive. All the
members of my family use my
machine in one way or another, so I
was wondering whether there Is a
piece of software available {PD or
commercial) that will assign access
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Basic - Beginners" Atl-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a high-level
programming language^ much favoured by micro-computer users. It
combines a fair amount of power with ease-of-use.
C - a compiled language designed primari^ for systems programming. It
was used to wnte much of the Amiga's operating system, and is used in
the writing of many Amiga applications.
Compiler - a means of translating a program to render \i understandable to
the computer, A compiler translates the whole thing into machine code
before It is run. The compiled program is generally much faster than its
Interpreted counterpart.
Font - the group of letters, numbers and special characters that comprise
one variation of typeface, for example: 12pt Times. 12pt Times Bold,
rigtits to Individual users. For
example, only I would be allowed to
delete flies.
Without blowing my own
trumpetf I am the only member of
our family who understands how the
machine works, so my mum or dad
could quite easily delete something
important without realising It. This
kind of protection could easily be
achieved using a user ID or a
password. At college our PCs are
running on a Novell network which
gives users rights such as reading
files, writing files, and altering
software setups, by using ID codes,
is this possible on ttie Amiga?
David Wrl^t
Preston
Lancashire
To be perfectly honest, this sort of
thing isn't really possible simply
because the Amiga is a personal
computer and not a network file
server. You can of course buy
networking systems for the Amiga
that will give you the same facilities
as the Novell systems that you
mention, but there's little point in
doing so unless you want to run
several Amigas from a single hard
disk. The nearest that you'll get to
such protection is to use the
AmigaDOS Shell command Protect
to protect certain files from deletion.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. JH
CmZEN MSP TROUBL£
I have a Citizen M5P-
lOo printer and no
matter what I try \
can't get it to work.
Ali I get is the message ' Checii
printer and cabte". Please could you
tell me the correct printer driver to
use, and the DIP switch settings?
J M P rite hard
Gosport
Hants
The ivIPS-lOe emulates the Epson
FX-80 or an IBM 'graphics' printer.
For best results on the Amiga you
need to have it in Epson mode, and
you should use any of the EpsonX
drivers (not EpsonQ). The DIP switch
settings will t>e in your printer
manual, if you don't have a manual
or cannot understand how to set
them, contact Citizen Technical Help
on « 0753 584111. JW
LOCKED OUT!
r^I ^ I use my hard disk
i/m. 1 drive for serious worii
but I often need to
use disks from other
people's machines. I use the LOCK
command In AmigaDOS to prevent
anything writing to the hard tlisk,
but this does not survive a soft
reset. Is there any way around this?
Jim Garden
Kirklntilioch
Glasgow
Yes and no. Iirstlyn don't assume
that if you have LOCKed a partition
using AmtgaDOS. a virus will not be
able to penetrate it: this is untrue. A
clever file vinjs will see the lock and
bypass AmigaDOS altogether.
You could open the drive and
splice a switch into the write line -
but that's a bnjtal and highly
inadvisable solution. The only
solution I have seen in software is in
Kickstart 2 where a boot menu
makes it possible to dismount your
automounied drives. Then c^am, a
clever virus may just make some
eiectfonic inquiries and still trash the
hard disk. If you really must use
other people's disks then remove the
hard drive from the machine and
forget about it. OK, it may sound a
bit severe - but it works, MS
BARE NECESSITIES
i read about the C
language but do not
know how to start
writing the listings.
Do i have to use special software
that handles C programs or can I
Just use the ED program that comes
with the Amiga? How do i save the
programs, and how do I run them?
Frank Bowman
St Lucia
Malta
MA AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 # FEBRUARY 1993
The C programs that you see in the
DOfica of magezines represent
lisTings from ordinary tert flJes, in
other words, files that are created
with programs like ED or some other
text editor. These flies rt{t- cfltfed
soLirrti cnrly fii^t;' ^nd you oreate
and save ihem in just the same way
as you create any other type of text
me Unfr>rTunat0iy, 3 number o!
addftionai step^ are needed to
convert these files into runnabie C
nroarams. Firstly, a oiece ot ftottware
called a c camQiler n^d^ to ne us^d
to [runeiam The program lines mto
low level machine code instructions
which the Amiga <^an undelSti^nd-
Second+y this latter obiect code' has
to unut?fEn a process known as
linKing which proOuces the tinal
runnaOle program. There's a lot more
to the storv but all Introductorv C
boo^ls will oLJiline Ihp sIpjjs, and
thvir purposes^ m 5omc deiQil^ PAO
DUMPING FROM DMP
I have an Amstrad
DMP-31G0 printer and
would like to use it
with Deluxe Psint til,
but as you can see from the
enclosed printout, aii i get Is
garbage. I bought the printer
without a manual. Which printer
driver ^huuld i ube?
I am getting a coiour printer.
Which 24-pin one gives the best
output in the £200 price range?
Also, how does Deluxe Paint III
delete a Rle with no Trashcan?
John Gasiteil
Crosby
UveriKwi
The DMP'3160 Is an Epson
compatible 9'pin printer, so you
should use the EpsonX or EpsonXOId
driver. Try both and 3CC which worhs
best- The printer's DIP switches
should be set to Epson mode. If
you've no manual you will need to
contact Amstrad f« 071836 6801)
and ask the technical people there
for ad vice -
Currently you cannot buy a colour
24-pin printer for £200, they all cost
Closer to £300.
I don't understand your last
question. If you mean "how come
Deluxe Paint can delete a file when
there isn't a Trashcan on the disk?",
this is because dropping icons into
the Trashcan doesnt actuarfy delete
anything - the Trashcan is juSt a
special type of directory that doesnl
get "emptied" until you select Empty
Trash from the Workbench Icons
menu, at which point everything in
the Trashcan gets deleted from the
disk. Until then you can open the
Trashcan (by double clicking on it)
and retrieve stuff.
When you select Delete from the
Deluxe Paint Picture menu it doesn't
put the selected file in the Trashcan.
it deletes it from the disk. Just like
using the AmigsDQS Delete
command, the file will l>e gone for
ever, so make sure you realiy want to
delete it before saying Yes. JW
A 1000 UPGRADES
We have recently
returned to this
country, bringing with
us an elderly AlOOO -
one of the first to reach Papua New
Guinea via Australia. It still works
flne (despite the climate changel)
but Is limited to running
smaller/older programs because it
only has 512K RAM. We would
therefore like to upgrade the
machine by adding some extra RAM
and a bard drive. Would the cost be
Justified now that the AlOOO \s
slipping beJow the innovation line,
eclipsed by the A600. 1500, 2000
and such like?
Richard Dry den
Dawlish
Devon
Beheve it or not, but the AlOOO" s
bus connector (you'll find it hidden
behind a plastic cover on the right
hand side of the machine) is actually
fuHy compatible with the bus
A QUESTION OF ROYALTY
1 am going to write a program to sell commercially using
ccimpil«d BaBlc. Do I have to pay royalties or acknowledge
the use of HiSoft Basic or AMDS? If I make the distribution
disk Into a self-booting disk Including WorkBench do I have
to pay royalties or make acknowledgment to Commoikiro.
DJP Relder. Whitehaven, Cumbria
Both HIsoft and Europress Software have told me that there are no
I ice nee /royalty fees required when writing compiled Basic/ AMOS programs
for commercial saie. You should however include a suitable
ocknowledgement- It may even be a good idea to let to let them see your
product because, if it Is good, they may offer to buy and/or distribute it on
your behdJf!
Commodore licensing and acknowledgement conditions can vary. You
should write to CATS (Commodore Amiga Technical Support) outlining ihe
files you wish to use and they'll explain what must be done. PAO
connector on the A500. You can
therefore connect just about any
hard drive or RAM expansion
designed for the A 500 to the AlOOO
through thih connector without any
modifications. Up until recently, I
owned an AlOOO myself (until
someone burgied my house and
siote the damned thing!) whfch was
CKpondcd to 6,5Mb using a standard
A500 RAM expansion. JH
COPY? WHAT'S COPY?
Having recognised the
excellence of the
Compugraphic
typefaces that came
with my PageSetter li I bought
George Thorn peon Services'
Compugraphie Type Fonts Volume 1
- three disks containing 37
typefaces In alL
But on reading the Information
for importing the typefaces into
PageSetter II. I was baffled as to
what to do- The directions reodi
"Copy the Jib, .metric and .ate files
for each font that you wish to Install
Into your CGFonts directory. They
will now be available tor use In your
documents."
As a novice with computers I
am at a loss as to exactly how to
copy these files into my font
directory. I'm not even sure how to
get into my font directory in the first
place. It Is certainly not
Immediately obvious from any of my
Workbench or PageSefter manuals.
Adrian Wood
Loughborough
Lelcs
OK, you're working with two floppy
disk dnves. so weMI set-up
PageSetler It with this in mind.
Rrst. boot from your copy of
Woihljcncii ds normal (noi the
original disk that came with the
Amiga, always work from a backup
copy!) and initialise (or 'format' as
we more usually call it) a new floppy
disk, giving It the name CGFONTS,
Use your external drive to format
Uie CGFONTS disk. I( you dont know
how to do this. Chapter 4 of your
Amiga 500 manual has a section
which deals with Initialising and
Renaming disks-
The disk you have just formatted
is the one on which you are gotng to
keep your Compugraphie fonts. You
may want to have a whole library of
these CGFONTS disks, but for the
moment we'll stick with one.
Now remove the CGFONTS disk
arKi put the GTS CG Type Fonts ftl
disk in the drive (its actual name is
CGFONTS^l). If you've read the
Contents and Info files on this disk
you'll know that there are several
typefaces on it, each of which
comprises several files stored in a
directory that has the same name as
the font.
So, let's copy the Albatross
typeface on to our CGFONTS disk.
Open your Workbench disk
window, or in other words double
click on the Workbench disk icon.
You should see an icon called Shell
appear in that window. Double click
the Shell icon and another window
will open. This is a window into which
we can type AmrgaOOS commands.
Type the followjng command into
the Shell window, not forgetting to
press the |Returnj key at the end of
the line:
COPY CGFONTS liALBATRO J
SS/ALBATROSS.ATC TO CGFONTS:
Don't type the J" ^ this is to show
where a command line has gone over
the width of the magazine column.
The character between S and 1 in
CGFONTS.l is called an underscore,
Vou type It by holding dowr^ the Shifi
key and pressing the mtnus sign key
(the one t>etween the number ?ero
and the equals sign). Note also the
colons after the disk names, or
Volumes' as the Amiga calls them.
The part of that command line
that reads CGF0NTS_1: ALBATROSS
/ALBATR05S.ATC is the name of
the hie that is to be copied,
preceded by the path' to the file -
you can read it as "the file to be
copied is on a disk called
CGF0NTS_1 in a drawer (or directory,
another name for the same thing)
called ALBATROSS, and the name of
the file is ALBATROSS.ATC
The disk name (the volume) is
always followed by a colon: directory
names are followed by slashes (the
one on the question mart^ key).
The Workbench disk will whirr a
bit white the Copy command is
loaded, then the CGFONTS.l disk
will whirr while the ALBATROSS.ATC
file IS copied into memory. The Amiga
wj|] next ask you to place the volume
(the disk) called CGFONTS in any
drive. So remove the CGF0NTS_1
disk from the extemal drive and put
the CGFONTS disk that we prepared
eadier into it. Don't worry about
clicking the Continue button in the
requester that has appeared, the
Amiga will automatically notice that
the correct disk is now in the drive,
provided it is called CGFONTS.
The CGFONTS dfSk will whirr for a
while as the ALBATROSS.ATC file
gets transferred from memory on to
the CGFONTS disk.
If the requester asking for
CGFONTS remains on the screen
after disk activity has finished, it
means that you haven't named the
disk CGFONTS - check for Jeading or
trailing space characters, and delete
them if you find any. it's either that
or you've somehow typed the
command mcorrectly-
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tPBtki «J fr«n po^r 41
Now you need to copy the
ALBATROSS.LlBanO
ALBATROSS.METRIC fiteS from the
CGF0NTS_1 disk to the CGFONTS
disk in exactly the same way.
When all three files have been
copied on to CGFONTS. that's the
complete Albatross typeface copied .
Now repeat The process for any other
typefaces you want to use.
You might also want to copy the
typefaces from the PageSetter li
Fonts & Utilities disk on to youf new
CGFONTS diSH:
COPY PSUTIL:CGFONTS/Tt7 J
TO CQFONTS;
The #7 is a wildcard sequence. That
command will copy all files whose
names begin with the letter T from
PSUTIL;CGFONTS/ onto the
CGFONTS disk,
I dnobi v^ry much whether you'll
gel niott; Uian about tigin
Compugraphic typefaces on one
floppy disk, so for this first CGFONTS
dlsk< copy the ones that you
definitely know you want to use now
rather than the ones you thlnii you
might want to use later.
When PageSener U is mn it will
looh for mimap ronis m d direaory
called FOr^TS on whatever disk you
booted from, and it'll look for
Compugraphic typefaces in a "logical
device' called CGFONTS: (with a
coion on the end). Don't let the lenn
'logical device' spoo^ you - for the
moment all you need to know js that
the names of disks are treated the
same way as logical device names.
So our disk called CGFONTS, when
placed in a drive, effectively
becomes the CGFONTS: device. If it
finda CQFONTS; PagcScllcr U looks
to see what Compugraphic typefaces
are available there, remembers
Ihemn and then opens its own screen
for you to start work. .
Have you spotted the flaw in the
system? Once PageSetter It has
looked in CGFONTS; and
remembered what typefaces are
there, these are the only typefaces
available during ih<s work session -
or to put It another way, you cant
stick another disk with more
typefaces on it in a drive and use
those. M\ the typefaces you want to
use during your DTP session must be
in CGFONTS: at the lime when you
ojn PageSetier li
With a hard drive you'd bung aU
your CG typefaces in one massive
directory and use the Assign
command to make this directory the
CGFONTS: logical device. No
probtcmo - all the typefaces you own
are available. But with floppies you
need to build a collection of CG FONT
disks that contain drfferent typefaces
for different types of work.
There's one rnore disk you need
to prepare, called CGCACHE. This
diflk will store bitmap
representations of any CG characters
you use so that they don't have to be
calculated every time you type them.
Working from floppies the time saved
isn't so great, but it certainly cuts
memory usage. So format a dJSk and
call it CGCACHE. At certain times The
Amiga may put a requester on the
screen asking for this disk to be
placed in any drive. Simply do as you
are asked.
And this is the way I would run
PageSetter It on a dual floppy drive
Amiga: Td boot from my working copy
o( Workbench, not from the
PageSetter II dish. Then Td remove
Wort^bench and put the PageSetter fl
disk in the internal drive, and my
CGFONTS disk in the external drive,
I'd run PageSetter II by double
clicking on its icon, and when it had
finished loading I would remove the
PageSetter II disk and put my
CGCACHE disk in that drive.
No doubt the Amiga will ask me
for the PageSetter If disk back at
some time, and maybe even the
Workbench disk. At which point I'd
oblige. And rd have a few blank
disks by my side, ready formatted,
onto which I would save my
PageSerfe^ '/documents. Eventually
rd get sick of swapping disks and
buy a third and perhaps a fourth
floppy drive, or I'd start saving up for
a hard dnve.
Finally, Adrian. I recommend you
buy yourself one or two books on
using the Amiga. Unless you read
and read and read, and then
expenment with your computer, you
are most likely destined to remain a
novice for ever. JW
MACRO MANIA
I have recently
brought Devpac 3
which Is bHIJIant but
Tm trying to use the
Abacus Amiga Machine Language
book which uses three Assempro
aaftflmUer-speciric macros:
Tl-BgL Ass€tipro:liicludee/ainigB.l
INIT. AMIGA
EXIT^AMIGA
I flon't know what these macros
mean and would be grateful If you
could print them in your mag.
Gareth Stoyle
Earls Barton
Korthants
I have never used the Asserripro
assembler and although I've asked
around not one Assempro user has
been found- 1 suspect that
somewhere in the book, or on the
drsk which accompanies it. you will,
however, find the necessary details.
All I can say is that if anyone out
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
I am thinking of starting up my own business and naturally
wish to u»e my Amiga for alJ my computing needs- fVlost
business software reviewed In magazines tends to bo word
proteasing, databau or spreadsheets. I would be grataful rt
you could teH me of any other software avaMatHe. I need software to handle
accounts such as cash books. VAT, plus stock control and Invoicing. I
already know about the Diglta range (although I've never seem them
reviewed), but I would be grateful If you could mention a few more.
Scott Hu^eft, Toxtoth, Uverpo<^
What an admirable oursuil. Scott! If only more people thought like you there
would be more on offer - unfortunately there isn't much and even less I can
recommend. There used to be a couple of business and accounting
programs but at least one has gone to the wall and I wouldn't dare mention
the other. Digita's accounting stuff doesn't took up to much (being a port
from &t)ii machines) but rt does the job. its later offerings such as System 3
and System 3e are tar better, although nothing hke as pleasant to use as
Wordworrt) or Home Accounts 2. I'd like to see Digiia and others upgrade
some of this software - but only time and a lot more people like you will
encourage them to do it: such is suppFy and demand. Or, put another way,
why supply something there is no demand for? MS
there in Amiga Shopfterl^nd has
already found this information III
gladly pass it on through the power
of these pages! PAD
TROUBLED WALTERS
^^^'^H I've recently bought
k ^^ a second-hand 9-pln
K^ -^ril printer. It has no
[.^_^^^^H manufacturer s name
on the front, but it has SNnwa
written Inside It and takes Shlnwa
CP80 multlstrlke ribbons. On the
back Is written Walters
Microsystems International Model
WMIOO. I was told on enquiring
that this company has since gone
into liquidation^
So 1 have no way to get a
manual and don't know how to set
the DIP switches. I have got It
printing In graphics and text with
tho EpsonXOId printer driver, but
with no Italics.
Could you please tell me wftere I
can find some more information on
this printer?
CESaul
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
1 don't know, si^. the thrngs I do for
you guys. And you didn't even bother
to send me a Christmas card.
I've boen on the trail of Walters
for some months now. ever since I
got a letter about help with a
^Walters 2000' printer. Rfst, the bad
news is that the company did indeed
go into liquidation, some two years
ago now.
The good news is that I've found
somewhere where you can get
manuals. The name of the firm Is
P&B Computers and the phone
numOer is » 0494 441288. They
can supply you with mar^uals for the
WM80. WMIOO and WM2000
nwdels, plus ribbons for those three
and a few others, JW
MEDDLESOME CRASH
I'm running OctaMED
\SMSi ^'° version 3.00 on a
standard 1500
(WB1.3)andlthas
crashed up to four times In one
hour. I have the same problem with
MEO on both my A500 and my
A1500. Would having more Chip or
Fast memory solve the problem?
Chrys Richardson
Bollngoy
Cornwall
It's happening on both machines so
it does look as though OctaMED and
MED. rather than your Amigas, are
somehow to blame- Having said that
I've not encountered any such
problems nor heard of any other
users having frequent crashes when
using these programs. My guess is
that your troubles are somehow
related to what you are actually doing
and you really do need to identify the
cause of the probfem before doing
anything rash (like going out and
buying more memory}. Try a few
experiments to see if the crashes
occur only when you are working with
many instruments, or with large
samples or complex songs,
I'd also suggest that you jot
down the Guru med<tation numbers
thai appear when the machines go
down and send them to AmigaNuts
United with details of exactly what
you were doing at the time - that will
almost certainly enatiie them to
identify the cause of the problem and
suggest a remedy! PAO
THE BIG FIELD
I am compiling a
database for my
video library but am
unable to find a
database with a suitable field
length. One thre«^our video tape
may contain as many as 500 short
AA AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 77 • FEBRUARY 1P93
clips which I need to enter Into the
field. Can you suggest a database
which will fulfil my needs - I need
one wh^ch supports a very large
field length, I havo tried a lot of the
PD and Shareware offefings, but
non« 4e«m« alil» to fit the bill.
Philip Nolan
Sutton Coldfleld
Wfli^t Midlands
■
I can jma^rw thol one created a few
smirkg with dataDa^B experts. This
proDiem Is not easy lo crack with tiat-
V\\e ySaiatya^e^ - tliu type you ve neer\
using - because ot the way they
work. What yot* need ■& not an
unlimited length tiefd, but a database
whicn can relate iwu Tilub. a
reialtona! dalabdbe. One which
contains a list of clips according to
video and another which ha5 the
video codes. I covered something
similor in Amigo ShoppCf^55ue 13
tMay 1992) using Superbase
Pereons/ which is so cheap they'll t>e
Eiving it owey with cornflBhcs soon.
You could probably adapt the model
10 Of aer 2. imSouXUHan)^
Software) too. M5
SHOT IN THE DARK
Hw colour graphics
quality on my Citizen
Swift 9 printer, which
I bought on the
strength of the review in Issue 4 of
Amiga Shopper, Is appaling.
Overall the colours are too dark,
but blue Is the worst. In Deluxe
Paint iV. PageStfeam 2.2 and
introCAD. royal blue (100 per cent
blue, zero red and green) has too
much red and black In lt> so K
comes out ver^ dark purple, even at
low densities. Using PageStream.
where It shows the actual colour In
tho coPQur palvtto, tho printed
colour looks nothing like It,
t us« the EpfionX driver tor
PageStream. EpsonXjCBM MPS-
12501 With Detuxe Paint tV, and
Epson-JXSO for tntroCAD. I put it
down to a driver problem as none of
these are specially written for the
Citizen Swift 9.
Is there a better driver, and where
can I get it from?
Colin Hayes
St Helens
Mttreeyslde
Like mo&t of the current S-pin colour
dot-matrix printers. Ihe Cilrzen Swift
9 emulates the Epson FX-850, The
best Amiga preferences driver to use
for this emulation is caHed Star9Plus
(it was written for the Star LC-200)
ar>d can t>e found on a printer driver
disk supplied by Just Amiga Monthly
(W 0895 274449}.
However the solution isn't that
simple. What you really need is the
power to correct the colours.
WorkCiench Printer Preferences has a
very basic colour correction feature,
but by selecting the R. G and B
colour correction buttons you should
enhance the output sirghhy. A better
way would be to use something like
Citiren Print Manager or Turbopnnt
Protesstonai. which will give you
greater contn^l over colour output.
Neither of these programs works well
with PageStream. but Ihey work fine
with Deiiixe Pamt til and tv. I've not
seen IntroCAD. but if it uses
standard Amiga preferer>ces printer
drivers then it should work with these
two handy programs, JW
TALKING DRUMS
I am trying to use
^^gy| MusfcXto program In
drum pattern
sequences using my
MIDI keyboard but Is there any way
ot inputting the data in a graphical
drum versus bar-position grid type
format? I remember In your MIDI
articles that you mentioned a way of
niaking the notes snap Into the
right place. Would this help?
Steve 8alazy
Henlow
Beds
It's not possible to use Music X to
create drum patterns in the way that
you descnbe but you can easily tidy
up the timing of drum parts entered
via your MIDI keyboard by quantising
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Assembler - a program which converts an assembly language program
vmtten in words (well, almost) into the machir>e code numbers that the
Amiga's GSOOO processor understands. Wnting programs in assembly
language ensures that the best possible speed and memory efficiency Is
gained from the machine.
Database - an program thai enables information to be stored and retrieved
in a structured manner. Information can be grouped according lo a
user's preference, and retrieved according to user-specified criteria.
Sequencer - a piece of software that stores musical scores and transmits
Uiia informoUon in real time via MIDf to synthesisers which will then play
it. Some sequencers have the facility lo receive and memorise MIDI
infomiaHon from a music keyboard so that music can be entered 'live'
instead of note by note.
the track data. Read the section
about the quantise module in the
Music X manual and all should
become clear. PAO
A F1L£ TOO BIG
In my ignorance I
crammed a disk full of
data - about 300
typewritten
paragraphs. When I try to edit my
work I can only get a very short way
before the machine locks. I realise
this Is a low memory fault but la
there any way 1 can split the tent
Into three parts and then access
those separately? P don t want to
have to re-type all the text again.
Bob Janes
Newton Abbot
Devon
+
First of all. you are not ignorant - we
all make mistakes from time lo time
and I've done worse things than that.
Ii*ie unrecoverably formatting the
wrong hard disk at low-level and
losing 40Mb-odd of data and
programs! Go on, have a good
chortle about that - then well see if
your problem can be remedied,
OK. rirstott, Trans wrrfe (which
you say you're using) is not meant
fo' humungous blocks of text. If you
want to write a large tome, write It In
chapters or. better still, treat yourself
to a word processor that can handle
text from disk, ProtexT 5,5 is an
eKcellenl example - and probably the
only one comparable to Transwnte^
In the meantime the only solution I
can offer is via AmigaDOS. (I'd prefer
to handle a problem such as this
with ARenx. but that's only supplied
with Workbench 2,)
Rrsl of all. make a copy of your
text file and put the original
somewhere sate. If you had the
icons turned on you can do this from
Workbench, otnenAftse jIs a bit more
tricky. If you have a DOS utility like
StO or Difectofy Opus use that and
jump lo Step 7. if all else faiJs try the
following batch of instructions:
1- Boot from your Workbench
disk and open a ShelL
2. Format a blank disk (in your
external drive). Any disk wiTf do.
provided it's already blank,
3. Enter the following:
RESIDENT CiCOPY
RESIDEHT C:DIR
RESIDENT C;CD
4. Now, put the disk with the file
you want to recover in the external
drive and enter this:
DIR DFl:
This will call up a list of the flies
and directories on the disk. If your
teja is in a drawer called TEXTS, this
will be listed as:
TEXTS (dir)
5. If you can see the file you
want to recover, go to Step 6 now. If
not enter this:
CD DFl:
CD TEXTS
DIR
If you can see the file now,
proceed to Step 5, If not. and the file
is stored in another directory, repeat
the last two commands, for instance:
CD Chaptera
DIR
Keep on like this until you find
the file you want.
6. Put a btanh disk in the internal
drive and enter the following
command to copy your file onto it
{replace the XXXX with the name of
the file you're copying):
COPY DFl: XXXX TO DFOiBIG
7. That completes the process.
You should now have a copy of the
original file on a blank disk. Make
sure that disk is in DFO: and replace
Workbench in the extern a I dr^ve.
Open a Shell tif you haven't already
done so}- Now is where things gets a
little tricky...
S. Enter the following command:
EDIT DFO: BIG TO DFO j Parti
fXJfTis a line editor which will prompt
you with a colon {:). Enter the
following list of commands carefully,
pressing jReturn] al The end of each
line, just as if you were still using
normal AmrgaDOS:
200D
Old; J
Q
That preserves the first 300 lines of
your hie and stores them as a file
called Parti which you should be
abie to access with Transwrite^
9. Enter EDIT again with a
command ^fne like this:
EDIT DFO:BIG TO DF0iPart2
The next step Is very similar to what
we did before, but differs slightly
because you need to delete the first
200 lines, keep the next 200 and
finally delete the rest:
200d
4
200n
r
0(dn
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as the destination filename, and the
follawing set oE commands:
400d
200n
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Note the value in the first line
Increases by 200 each time. Keep
on doing tttia until you have divided
the original file into amall enough
segments to work with.
[f , ofter trying dl that you're still
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as soon as I can. But please, do try
It yourself first - that is the only way
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CmZEN MIFFED
f2 ^ Having very (Hlle
-rl technical hnowledgd,
and having recently
bought WoKtworth
1.1, \ was somewhat disappointed
to ream that I could not print text In
colour via a Citizen Swift 24 printer.
Your excellent magdzlne reports
on ttw new Workbench 2. wNch
doo9 d^al with coloured text, and as
I have the 1.3 version I thought
upgrading would be the Ideal
solution. Until I saw the price.
All I really want are the new
disks, and \ am assuming that the
ROM and Chip RAM upgrade will not
be necessary as I aiready have
2.5Mb- Can these disks be obtained
without buying the whole deal?
SW Waldron
Newport
Gwent
There is absolutely no point in
upgrading to Worl^tiench 2 without
u[^rading to Kickstart 2 as well.
Workbench 2 requires Kickstart 2.
You can still get away w<th just 512k
of Chip RAM, but 1Mb is better-
But this is neither here nor there
because your problem has nothing at
all to do with versions of Workbench
and Kickstart. Of course you can
print lent \n colour from WonjwOfth
1.1. providing your Swift 24 has the
colour kit fitted and you have the
correct printer driver selected (read
your Wordworth manual), I think you
are getting confused with the fact
That Workbench 2 has buiJt-Tn
support for something called
ColorFonts. which are many-coloured
fonts instead of single coloured
ones. But this has nothing to do with
actually printing colours. JW
CHORUS OF APPROVAL
I am interested in
[yHVI purchasing software
to enable me to play
In up to eight part
choral music with piano
accompaniment, to edit, add lyrics^
and produce a printed copy to
raavontibly professional standards.
I've seen an Atari running Sotafor
software which seems to do what 1
want- Is there anything simiJar that
I can use on my Amiga?
SHall
Burgess HIH
West Sussex
Although not as good as Noiator
there IS a heavyweight dtp version of
Dr T'5 Copyist program available
which IS designed for this sort of
work. Copyist dtp itself costs £229
but there are a couple of other
cheaper versions of the program
which might just suit your needs- The
best thing to do is to see the
programs in action and if you contact
Zone Distnbution on « 07 1-7 38-
5444 to make suitable visiting
arrangements, they've said that
they II be able to show you the
programs in action. PAO
LCD SCREEN SCENE
^ I am considering the
"^^ purchase of an A600
to enable me to
operate and learn
different types of software In my
travels, rather than Just at home^
Before I purchase the A 600 though.
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Acceierator board - a device which either includes a central processor like
the Amiga's, or a more advanced one In the sanne range, but operating
at a higher speed. An accelerator is useful for calculation-intensive
applications, such os 3D rendering.
Qenlock - a way of slaving one video source (usually that produced by an
Amiga) to another (for example video tape or a camcorder) in order to
syrichfonise their signals to allow stable wipes, mixes and other effects
including overlay between the two sources-
Sample - a Oigrtal - computerised - representation of a sound. A sample
can be sent through a digital to analogue converter {the Amiga has four
ot these) and be heard as sound. Different frequencies [or pitches) of
Vie sound can be obtained by varying the speed at which Che sample is
played back-
I'd like to know whether
Commodore plans to produce a
version of the A600 with a full
coiour fold down LCD screen In the
very near future. At the moment* L
would have to lug a portable
television around wKh me if I bought
the existing AGOO.
R Anscombe
Basingstoke
HanU
Colour LCD screens are still very
expensive, Mr Anscombe, so it
seems unlikely that an Amiga
portable sporting a colour LCD
screen will be appearing withtn the
coming months. I'm sure
Commodore do plan to launch a
portable Amiga eventually- but both
the timing and the machine's pricing
have to be right. Commodore's move
towards surface mounted technology
and the new CMOS-based AGA'
custom chips do seem to suggest
thai the company is prepanng its
technology for easy inclusion within a
portable machine, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that a portable will
be launched. Like all things
Commodore, we mere minions can
only s\X back and wait with baited
breath... JH
INTERFACE THE FAaS
MJ have decided to
take the plunge and
buy an A1200, but
first I would like to
clarify a few points.
a) Although the CPU Is only a
6S020. the chances are I would like
to upgrade. Would a new CPU
simply fit in the socket, or would a
card be required? Approximately
how much would this cost?
b) Is there any possibility of
replacing the IDE Interface with a
SCSI? How much faster is SCSI and
would the Internal HD be able to
work with It?
c) How compatible is AmigaDos
3 and the new AGA chipset with the
A500/600?
d) When a high-denalty drive
eventually filters through, will It Just
t>e a matter of opening the case and
swapping drives?
Graeme Herd man
Low Fell
Gateshead
a) You cannot simply replace the
68020 with another CPU. Most of
the chips on the A 1200 motherboard
are surface mounted, and not in
sockets. The 68020 found in the
A1200 Is a very compact version of
the chip, about the size of a postage
stamp, and more powerful chips
such as the 68030 would not have
the same pin connections and are
unlikely even to be the same size^
Fortunately the trapdoor port on the
bottom of the A1200 is especially
designed to take processor
expansion cards. These are planned
by Commodore, although they, and
the prices for them, are not yet
available, I would guess that a
68030 would be not much more than
£200. Third party manufacturers
such as GVP will probably be
extremely qutck off the mad^ as welL
I wouldn't expect you'd have to wail
longer than four months for The first
cards to start appearing.
b) No. You couldn't simply take
one out and replace it with another.
IDE dnve interfaces are not as
advanced as SCSI, and are much
cheaper to manufacture. The catch is
that they require much more
processor time in order to work,
SCSI, on the other hand, is lightning
quick if implemented properly and
requires very little in the way of
processor usage. The catch with
SCSI IS that It. and Fhe drives, are
more expensive than their sTower
and less-advanced IDE counterparts.
You could, however, add a SCSI
interface to the A1200 at a later
date and then fit external SCSI dnves
If you wished to,
c) Very compatible with
everything except games. The vast
majority of modem 11992 onwards)
games for the Amiga will work with
the new chipset and operating
system- Older games are much less
likely to work, Applications software,
such as DTP, an. word-processing,
utilities and so forth are afmost
guaranteed to work. If you are
unsure, take your most important
software down to a dealer and try it
out t>efore buying.
d) Yes, when Commodore make
the high density drives available
separately then you will be able to
swap them over. TS
SMEAR CAMPAIGN
I have a Commodore
MPS-1270A Inkjet
printer, with which I
use the HP92261A
Ink cartridges.
When printing onto listing paper
I have to wait up to 20 minutes for
the Ink to dry. When 1 use
photocopier paper it is dry almost
instantly. Could you please tell me if
there Is a quick drying ink cartridge
for my printer?
Also, can I use the same printer
cable I use on the Amiga with my
PC and the Commodore printer?
M Barker
Bransholme
EYorks
No. you can't buy a quick dryfog ink
cartridge because individual models
of Inkjet pnnters require certain
types of ink to be used. But you can
buy proper inkjel paper, which is
covered in a fine layer of chalk so
that the ink dnes jnstantLy upon
M AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1993
contact with the paper. Any good
stationers will be able to help you,
but be prepared lo pay quite a lot
more than for ordinary photocopier
paper. And tantold mkjet paper (i«hat
I think you mcon by 'li&ting' popcr)
tenOs to cost twice the price of cut
5h@et Inkjet paper.
in answer to your second
Question, yes. JW
FLYING HIGH
I have been involved
t^l In video production for
a few yvcirv on n aem^
professional basis and
have leceniLy mudo the decUion to
upgrade substantially to a new
- Industrial' 5-vri5 edit suite from
Panasonic - A07750 and AG7650
machfnes with AGA800 edit
controlier, MX50 production mixer
and such like.
in th« past I hnva Incorporated
an AS[KJ Plus and G2 VCl genlock
Into the system for captions and
graphfca and 1 would like to
continue using an Amiga in the
iipfiraded envlmnment. Which raises
the question How far do I wish to
take the machine?" In essence I
would like to have an Amiga which
complements the capabilities of the
new system,
Thb obvioualy means InM^lling
extra memory and a hard drive.
Would the A530 from GVP be the
obvious choice?
In order to run such programs as
Scafa MM200 in cor^junction with a
24-bit graphics card such as
OpaiVisionp for Instance, how much
memory - both Fast and Chip RAM
' would you recommend? Is the
MegaChip 2000/SOO the wisest
choice here?
Is It true to say thai
'Productivity^ modo la the ideal
mode for graphics-oriented work {as
opposed to Hhres/Super HkRea)? If
so, are the ECS chips that are
required already Installed in the
A500 Plus or would they need to be
purchased separately? I aci dentally,
I plan to use an NEC 4F1G monitor.
As my intention Is to create as
automated a system configuration
as possible I would also like to
utilise the Amitia for data storage
and retrieval (in other words. Edit
Decision Lists - EDL). Panasonic
told me that auch applications only
exist on MS-DOS systems- Is this
true, or couid you recommend an
application for the Amiga? The
AGASDO edit controller has an
RS232 25 pin sub-D connector.
Finally, and perhaps most
Importantly, will the A 500 Plus,
wtth all the attendant upgrades and
«Apfln9Eona, bo aufflciontiy woll
specttied to take full advantage of
the above-mentioned applications
and software or will an Amiga 3000
be required from the outset?
To sum up, can an A500 Plus be
expanded to exceed the Amiga
3000 In spec or is there stIM an
intrinsic difference between the two
machines in terms of ultimate
eAp<mdabUity?
Nick Carter
St Julian's
Matta
I think that you would be far better
off constdenng one of the new
A4000 machines. With (Is new
paphics modes, hand drive, fast
processor. 2Mb of chip memory,
built-in flicker fixing and other
features, you are in the perfect
position of being able to take one
|j|dnl leap forward and not have to
worry ai all about what you are
leaving behind in terms of
incompatiDle peripherals.
You could even hold off on the
pelvis ion and use HAMS mode until
the time was nghi. Scala MM200
works with the AA chip set. and a
modified OqIuhg Pa/ni should be
available as you read this. The only
thing you migm consider adding
immediately is more memory, though
a standard A4000 ships with 2Mb
Chip and 4Mb Fast RAM. so you
might be happy with that anyway - I
know OpalVision certainly vi/ill. though
whether it works properly in a 4000 I
have yet to hear.
Put your A500 Plus aside for
word processing, games and offline
graphics - there really isn't much
point spending money on it now that
you can buy a new machine which
seems so Trtted to your needs for
less than it would cost to add alt the
extras to your current A500 Plus -
and then some.
Even if the A4000 had not been
released. I would have said that you
should \oqK at an A3000 instead of
trying to expand the A500 Plus -
especiaJiy since the OpalVision has
not yd been announced as an
external version.
By the way. Productivity mode
only has four colours maximum, so
I'd forget It for video work.
As for EDL software. Panasonic
are almost con-ect. Microillusions
produced an Amiga program caiied
EDLP (Edit Decision List Processor)
which lets you set up your edit list
(with one video and two audio
channels) and then communicate
with a suitable edit controller via the
Amiga's serial port,
I'm assured that it will work fine
with the Panasonic AGA800 which
you propose buying, EDLP is still
available and can be obtajned from
The Software Business. Cromwell
Business Centre, New Road, St Tves,
Huntingdon. Cambs PE17 4BG {in
the UK) for £299.99 [which sounds
rather expensive, but compare it to
other systems and you'll reahse what
a bargain it really is). GtV
MYSTERY ILLNESS
r A II I would be grateful for your advice. I bought my A1500 wFth
/\ KickStart 2.04 six months ago with a PMIhps monitor as a
package deaL With the monitor I got Fid Steatth righter.
Unfortunately this does rwt work with my computer. The
dteh li^ts stayed on for around seven seconds arid the screen went dead.
After numerous disk exchanges, I still have had no luck.
I have tried these disks on a 1.3 A1500 and they worked fine. Could
my problem be that the KJckstart Is Incompatible with these disks? Is
there a way to load from the Shell?
Atoo, Is thore any truth In the 'Amiga Disease* In other words: if the
monitor is placed over tfie Amiga, It can cause a similar problem?
Mr A Burgon. Brecks. RotherlMm
I'm afraid that your problem is Kickstart related, and the product is not
working correctly under 2.04. As far as the Amiga Disease goes, this is
definitely a new one! No. there Is no truth In tt. The only problem you could
have Is by stacking disks next to tiie monitor speakers, in which case you
will exj^rlence disk faufts and unreliability, re
TOWER POWER
Ml am trying to find out
more information
about a product
produced by
Inovatronics called the Hl-Q Tower,
Do you know of any complaints from
users concerning this product?
Would I be able to merge an A500
with Progressive Peripherals' Zeus
Accelerator or GVP s Combo 40
Accelerator boards?
Peter Holdorf
USS Carl Vinson
USA
The Hi-Q Tower is actually
manufactured in this country by a
company called (perhaps
unsurpn Singly) Hi-Q Ltd. W's basically
a replacement casing for the A500
that houses the A500's innards
inside a very posh PC-like tower
casing. Extra disk drives, hard drives
and even Amiga 2000 expansion
boards can be added internally, all of
which are driven by a very high rated
200W power supply. In theory,
there's no reason why 2000
processor cards won't work with The
Hi-Q Tower, but you should check
before handing over your hard earned
cash for the product.
I did have a chance to piay with
the Hi'Q Tower about two years ago,
but the Tower that the manufacturers
demonstrated lo me was a very early
pre production model. Since then,
the company has been surprisingly
quiet despite repeated requests for a
review model.
Who knows, perhaps Hi-Q will
read this and finally send through a
review model, therefore allowing us
to rale it for ourselves. We certainly
haven't received any complaints from
other readers conceming the Hi-Q
Tower, but It would still be nice to be
able to see the thing 'in the flesh'.
However, if you want to know more
you can phone Hi-Q yourself on
o 071-923 0658. JH
MAKING NEW SOUNDS
I have recently bought
l^g^ a PSS 790 keyboard
and although Tm
pleased with the
sounds I was wondering if there Is
any way to alter the existing sounds
or create new ones. I have heard of
patch edKors for the more
expensive Yamaha synths. is thero
any PD or commercial editors
available for my synth?
Steve Bird
Upper Mill
Oldham
The short answer is no because the
PSS 790 uses preset sounds and
these cannot be altered. Vour model
does l-iowever allow new mixes of
preset voices to be created [the
manual calls this Vector Synthesfs)
but this IS not the same as creating
voices from scratch, I'm fairly certain
that there Is no software around to
r^eip with this and, because of the
limited sysex facilities. I'm not even
sure that a patch-mix type editor
could even be wniten to help with
PSS 790 votce mixing. PAO
WRONG PAGE LENGTH
I am using
Professionai Page 3
to print various
documents, posters
and so on. But after switching on
my DeskJet 500 the fir^t page
always prints haif-arvinch higher
than all subsequent pages.
I am using A4 paper and have
paper length set to 70 lines in
Prefs. I have tHed altering Che DIP
switches on the printer to no avail.
Robin Dun way
BUIerlcay
Essex
The DeskJet needs a bit of the top of
the paper and a bit of the bottom of
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the paper m order to feed the paper
mto and out of the printer. When it
reaches the physical bottom of the
paper trie pr^r^ter feeds ine paper
out, and the next sheet in, then
orinla the bottom of Ihe previous
pagti (whicn 19 In an prabability blank)
on the new page before starting on
the new page.
Reduce your Professional Page
page fti7© by one inch, and start work
nght at the top of the on screen
page, remembering that when prrnted
there will be a printer-enforced top
margin. JW
THE FAST LANE
HI would bo grntoful if
you would ploaae
answer three
questions, as no one
else I know can:
m) I currently have an A15D0+
With a CSA-68030 33IVIIl/ card wJth
2Mb and 512K static Kickstart
Shadow RAM, and a GVP Hard/RAM
curd with 2Mb RAM and 180 Mb
SCSI hArd dkk. The question la,
would I ga^n any performance
benefits If I was to purchase an
A3000, repLacing the hard drive
wKh my current oira? More
specifically, I have read thai the
A3000 has a faster SCSI transfer
path from the Interface to Its
memory, which is quicker than my
setup. If it la faster, how much
faster would It tie. or ia it irrelevant
due to ttie average access time of
the hard drive itself being the most
predominant factor? Also, does the
A3000 address Chip RAM faster
than my accelerated system?
b) Why won't my A150D print
anything? If I use the V1.3 parallel
device. It works without any
problems. I have tried removing all
the other devices in my syBtem, and
I still experience the problem under
WorhBench 2.04. I have tried my
Kicks tart chip in a hiend's A20t>0
and it works, but on another friend's
machine - this time an A1500, it
does not work.
c) Is the A3000 capable of
accepting the new AG A chipset ae
found In the A4000?
Mr A Alam
Old Trafford
Manchester
a) The A3000 IS an improvement
over the A1500 because it is a full
32-bit machine, and this inciudes the
Chip RAM. The result of this is that
machine performance is generally
much better than an equally
accelerated {25Mhz 68030)
A1500/A2000. The A3000s SCSI
interface is particularly good as
SCSIs go< and is very efficient and
e^remeiy quick. It is also
eKceptionally reliable: I have three
1200 GOOID €%y|g5TiOIS
I have twen considering the purchase of an Amiga but
^^ recently the A500 Plus has been discontinued. 1 am
therefore now left pondering which machine I should buy.
Until recently, the only option was the A600 but I see that
Commodore have now launched the A1200. Can you please answer the
toUowing questions:
a) What machines is the A1200 compatible with?
b) How many expansion ports does the A1200 have?
C) What are the main advantages of the A1200 over the A&DO/A600?
d) Is the A1200 just a games machine or a serious computer?
e) What are the disadvantages of the A1200?
* Deborah Waters, Tooting^ London
a} The Amiga A1300 is software compatible with the entire range of Amiga
computers. Due to the machine's advanced design, there are bound to be
some software titles {mainly games) thai won't work on the A1200, but
these are in the minority.
b) The A1200 has exactly the same expansion ports as the A600 plus
ar) exb-a CPU port which replaces the A600's limited trapdoor connector.
C) There are several major advantages that the A1200 offers over the
A600 and A500 machines. The most obvfous of these is speed - because
the A1200 uses a 68020 processor backed up by full 32-bil architecture, it
runs about three times faster than a standard Amiga. The other big
advantage of the A1200 is its ^AGA' (also known as 'Double A') custom chip
set. Ottering a colour patette of over 16 majion colours, the A1200 is
capable of displaying a maximum of 262,CKX) colours on screen at once.
Compare this to the A600"5 4096 colour palette and you'll soon start to
appreciate why the A1200 is the future!
d) The A1200 is both. When it's not being used as a serious computer
for graphics^ animation, music, word processing. CAD, DTP, video or
whatever, the A12O0 also plays a damned good game.
e) None that I can think of! JH
devices attached lo my A3000T and
have had no probiems in the 18
months I have owned the machine.
Whether or not it would be faster
^an your setup 1 am not sure, tt
depends on the speed of your driven
and the speed of the GVP hard^^ard.
You should notice a general speed
Increase of all operations by
UF^ading to an A3000, which
incidenlaUy represents encellenl
value for money at the moment.
b) The A1500 and the A2000 are
actualiy identical boxes. The oniy
difference is that the A1500 has two
floppy drives, and the A2000 now
ships with 52Mb hard disk and onty
one floppy dnve, i doubt very much
that it IS a fauit in the Kickstart chip,
as that would cause the machine not
to wori^ at all. It is more iikely to be
either an incompatibitfly problem in
the printer, or cable, which arises
because of software changes under
2.04 or a fauU on your motherboard
which does not affect the 1.3 parallel
devKe. [ would suggest taking the
entire machine to your dealer and
tfying it out with several printers.
c) The A3000 IS not capable of
accepting the new AGA chips. The
AGA chipset is a fuff 32-bit system,
where as the ECS in the A3000 is
16-bit. There aren't the gaps on the
mothertward to fit the AGA system.
Having said that, I am sure this will
not stop some enterprising company
from at least havtng a go, but don't
rely on It. TS
COLD COMFORT
In my WBStartup
drawer I have
VtrusChecker 6.X
running. However,
when I also run the Citizen Print
Manager, a window pops up telling
me that the 'Cold-Capture Vector'
has been changed, and should it fix
it. Up to now I have withstood my
curiosity and have not done this.
but I would like to know what this
is, and what would happen if i
altered It. Also, will I need
WorkBench 2.1 to enable me to use
high density disk drives?
AC Tetley
Lincoln
The Cold-Capture vector points to
programs which are run after your
computer is reset. This is one of the
ways in which viruses cause their
damage: they install themselves on
the Cold-Capture, and consequentiy
can survive a soft feset (Control-
Amiga-Amiga), Quite why the Print
Manner <s writing to this is beyond
me. and perhaps that is a question
you ought lo pose to Citizen. In the
meanwhile, I presume the Manager
is also in your WBStartup drawer. If
this IS the case, there is a nice easy
way of slopping VirosCf^ecker from
continually telling you about this
vector. Open your WBStartup drawer,
click once on VirusCtiecker ar\6
select Infomialjon from the
Workt>ench menu. Now add a new
tool-type of STARTPRl = -20, TNs
will ensure that WrusCftecfter gets
run last.
Be carefuf about high density
drives. Vou don't, theoretically, need
Workbench 2,1 to use them.
Workbench 2 has all the necessary
support to handle them. The pn^blem
is, that they are not standard high
density drives. You cannot simply
buy a PC one and plug it in - it is a
special dual speed Amiga one, which
IS not yet availabje separately. TS
THAT'S THE SIZE OF IT
Can you please tell
me how to get my
Amiga 500 to work in
Interlace mode for
video work without halving the
height of my graphics fonts?
If my Rendale 8802 genlock Is
connected and fed with an extemal
pulse signal (for example, from a
video recorder or camcorder), the
Amiga Immediately goes into
Interlace without shrinking my
fonts. However, it's not always
convenient to use my camcorder or
VCR for this purpose.
Using DPaInt tit it is possible to
go Into interlace and then stretch
the fonts used In the program back
to the original size - but 1 want to
use programs other than DPatnf.
Geoff Welch
Applet on
Cheshire
Ah. this is a clear case of 'When is
interiace not interlace"? And the
answer is of course: when it's
interface, that's when,
I'd better explain. In tefevision
terms interlace refers to the practice
of making up a single frame of 625
line video Image from two 'fields" of
312.5 horizontal lines, each of which
change every 501h of a second and
give the appearance of a single
coherent picture. Incidentally, it is
this rapid alternation which can give
rise to the dreaded screen flicker
which some people find so
distracting on their Amiga.
But in Amiga terms the number
of hofizontal and vertical lines which
make up a screen are what affect
the size of your fonts, whether a
display is interiaced or not.
The reason for this is that ail the
fonts displayed on the Amiga's video
screen are bitmapped fonts - which
means that each letter is made up of
a fixed pattern of dots which defines
its shape and size. If we use a
standard lo-res screen (320 by 256
pixels) as a reference and place a
letter on u. it will appear to be
'normally' sized.
But if we place the same 'etter
on a hi-res screen (640 by 512
pixels) It will appear as exactly half
its 'normal' size, because the
relative size of the' pixels which make
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up the screen are half that of a lores
scTOon. H follows that on an
Interlace' screen (320 by 512) the
same ietter will be half-heighi but
normal' width. Following this logic
you might expect a lo-res overscan
^rppn OfiQ hy 2901 to distort me
fonts in proportion to the extra size.
Not so, as the pixels remain the
same relative size so long as the
screen resolution remains the same.
As you mentioHn it is possible to
resize trie letters in DPatnt. but this
1^ nui [he ultimate soluUon, since
what 15 really r9quir9d is to re&iiB the
whoie font. For instance, if you want
B €0 point font {which really moana
60 pixels on the Amiga) to De the
some size on a lores screen ds on
on Interlace one then you would need
to have two sizes for that font - 60
and 120 pixeL Resizing fonts cannot
easily be done without using special
programmes, and the only one which
I can recommend is called
Calligrapher. though I couldn't tell
you whether or not it is still available,
being quite an old program by now.
To prove what I say is correct,
find Q font which has a range of sizes
and look at thek relative screen
sizes in different resolutions. Then
try using these fonts in different
programs and decide how to go on
from there.
When the genlock 'interlaces'
your Amiga image it does a TV
interlace, not an Amiga interlace. If
you see what I mean. This is why the
fonts don't shhnk. whatever Amiga
3rreen mode you are in. So, if
nect^<iary, you could safely
disconnect the video input while you
worV and suffer no iM-effects,
because the genlock is not
responsible for any Tont shhnk^e
which occurs. GW
MEMORY HEADACHES
Hi have recently aeen
advertised In your
magazine Pro Agnus
2Mb (Obese Agnus
with 2IVtb Chip RAM on board) by
WTS Electronics for £139. This
appears very reasonable, and la
British made. I have also seen
DKB's MegaCtilp 2000 at £170. Aro
they similar? I haven't seen any
reviews of the WTS Board. Would
mtlng a 2Mb Chip RAM board cause
compatibility probloma with my
RAM expansion. I do not want to
cut the tracks on the circuit board
as I think this causes problems for
large trapdoor expansions, i believe
they have to be connected to the
Qary chip - can more than one item
be linked to the Gary chip or not? 1
Intend to eventually purchase a GVP
hard drfve and accelerator: are
there likely to be any problems with
my setup as envisioned?
JA Clague
Ramsey
While I have not used the WTS
Pro Agnus board 1 have used the DKB
boanj a lot, and It is a very good
expansion. It is small and compact,
small enough even to fit inside the
casingof theCDTV-
Unfortunaiely the DKB l>oard
(and almost certainly the WTS board
too} will need alterations to your
revision 5 mothertjoard for them to
work, and yes. this will cause major
problems with your large trapdoor
expansion, it is unfortunate that
many trapdoor RAM expansion
designers did not follow Commodore
hardware guidelines and produced
add-ons that are not compatible with
irwtb or 2MD Chip RAM, Your best
option is to get rid of your trapdoor
card and add external memory in
your GVP A530 accelerator/hard disk
when you get it. JR
AREXX ALONE
I want to start using
ARexx but I only have
Workbench 1.3. As I
do not intend
upgrading to Workbench 2,04, 1 was
wondering whether it Is possible to
buy ARexx separately. How much
does ARexx coat, where can 1 buy it
from and is it compatible with
AMOS Professional? Also. Is It
possible to use a stand-alone
version of ARexx with CanDo?
Paul Clifton
Swindon
Wiltshire
ARex* has been available s^nce
1987. dunng which time il has
undergone continued development.
The latest release, version 1.15, is
available separately from Workbench
2,0 for around £40 from HB
Marketing, who can be contacted on
= 0753 686000. Thanks to
Eufopress' decision to support
ARexx. AMOS Pro IS fully compatible
with ARexx. I'm afraid it's not
possible to include a stand-alone
version of ARexx with your CanDo
decks. All the ARexx files are part of
a commercial package, so including
any part of ARexx with another
program is an infringement of both
Commodore's and William S Havres'
copyright. JH
AERIAL VIDI HELL
I bought a Rombo
VidhAmtga 12
(vl.072)formy A500
Plus but I cant get it
to work properly.
The first thing wrong was that
the lead supplied with the system
wouldn't fit onto the TV output of
my Philips VCR. so I got an adaptor
and managed to connect It up.
When I tried to use VIdf to 'grab'
something I got a message saying
no Video Signar. So then I tried
connecting the Vidi to the Amiga's
black and white output (as it says
Jn the troubleshooting part of the
manual) and this time It all worked
fine and I was able to grab a
screenshot of the Vldt-Amlga
program. So I thought I'd try
connecting It up to the 5CART
output of my VCR - but that didn't
worh either.
In a review of VIdt In Amiga
Format. Jason Holbom had no
problems using a Panasonic video
recorder and camera. However,
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Agnus chip - the custom chip dedicated to graphics. The first three versions
- 8361. and the 8370 and S371 Fat Agnus - can access 0.5Wlb of Chip
RAM. A later version. 8372a, can access llAb: white the ones used in
A500 Pluses. A600S, A1200S and A3000s can access 2Mb.
ARexx - an interpreted programming language that ts included as standard
w^th Workt>ench 2 and above. U is used extensively to control other
pr^^ams. and is a great aid to multitasking.
Oigitiser - a device which takes the analogue information taken by a source
such as a video camera and converts it to digital screen information for
use by a computer.
Fast RAM - any extra memory which is not Chip RAM, The custom chips
cannot access it, and because such accesses to Chip RAM can block
out the central processor and slow down its own accesses. Fast RAM is
faster.
Interlace - a method used to double the apparent vertical resolution of the
monitor by alternately refreshing the screen at a slight vertical offset,
thus squeezing an ext/a line between each of the lines of a non-
interlaced screen.
Virus - a small program that can lie hidden tn memory or on a disk,
duplicating itself on to any disks inserted in tho machine, and generally
causing havoc. There are many virus killers available in the public
domain designed to deal with this menace.
when i tried using a friend's
Panasonic video with the V/dMhe
'No Video Signal' message appeared
again. This also happened when I
tried It with a video camera (the
PMIi|>s Explorer).
In a nnel desperate attempt to
get Vidi to work I tried changing the
frequency of the channel the video
recorder outputs but to no avail. So
I reckon It^s about time to ask the
experts for the help that i need, i
hope there is a solution to my
problem as i would hate to be
unable to use my VIdt. Do I need a
signal converter for my video
recorder or Is there something
wrong with the video cartridge that
I bought?
Ray Hourlgan
Umerick
Ireland
You're going to kick yourself when
you read this Ray, but I think that
your problem has an extremely
straightforward cause - if I
understand your letter correctly.
It seems to me that you have
been trying to use the AERIAL (or RF)
outputs from all the various pieces of
equipment which have frustrated
your attempts to use the Vidi Amiga
12. with the obvious exception of the
Amiga's composite output - which
worked fine. Here lies your trouble-
Only composite video or S-VHS
signals will work with the Vidi-12. For
technical reasons. RF signals are
totally incompatible and. as you have
discovered, will not work!
I can understand how you
Ijecame so confused though,
because the connector on an aenal
cable can easily fit into the phono-
style sockets which are fitted to
many Amiga video devices-
Try using a composite video input
and I am certain you will find the Vidi-
Amiga X2 works perfectly. GW
MUSIC FORMATS
I have Music X and
jNjgyi the DMCS music
packages. DCMS will
load and save SMU5
type files and Music X will convert
5MUS flies to Music X files but not
Music X to MIDI or SMUS type, is
there any program, PD or otherwise,
that can?
J Dabell
Chiiwail
Beeaton
The AMFC program is supposed to
do these types of conversions
although I must admit I've not
actualiy ined it. AMFC costs £5 and
is available from AmigaNuts United,
169 Dale Valley Road, Hollybrook,
Southampton SOI 6QX (Fax 0703
785680}. MO
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Language: 68000 Assembly Language
Problem: The mouse pointer does not change when the
user clicks in the opened window
Author: RS Fosterf Strinesdale, Lanes
or our first Issue of Code
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aBsembly language program
written to open a window on
screen and then change the mouse
pointer when the user clicks In It.
The program m question had one
comment in it. We'll ifinore it this
time, hut please comment your
Drugrarn& well. It fnahes debugging
so much easier. There were several
bugs In the program I was sent:
1, The routine op^nlnt should
open ifie intuition uorafy. Well, it
does. Dui ii does not checK itie
return value. It is possible that the
Exec will not be able to open it. You
should check all return values from
routines that might not work just in
i^aae. If ir^tuition h^d net opened, in
this case the program would crash.
2. The routine wLnopen should
open the window. This routine also
does not check to see if the window
opened or not^ in the case of
windows, in low memory conditions,
or i1 you got your window information
wrong, the window would not have
opened and the pfogram would have
crashed when it called SetPointer.
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sets up the custom window pointer
sends the wrong information to the
intuition routine SelPolnter - which is
what is causing the program to fail.
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ptr,al. The Includes and autodocs
for the intuition function SelPolnter
dehne the register Ai as being a
pointer to the data definition of a
sprite". Consequently you must pass
SetPolnter a pointer to this datan
Instead, you were actually pointing it
to the address $00000100, the first
long word of data in your sphte. This
is why the sprite went blank, as this
memory probably contained zeroes.
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be, and send a summary. If you must send in big programs, send them on
disk, but note that we cannot return them unless you enclose an SAE.
We can't do anything with messy or uncommented programs. The first
rule of programming is to structure and comment your program welL Also,
use Commodore's function names. This means using names like
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correct names for library functions.
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routines yourself at the start of youf
program you are increasing the
likelihood of introducing errors.
Always use the Commodore Include
files, which come with DevPsc.
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program in Chip RAM using;
section code, code c
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Chip RAM. Put your program in Fast
RAM if you can, I suggest that you
have two sections: one of data_c for
the sprite data and one of simpiy
code for the program section. This
way the program will get located in
Fast RAM it it is available.
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tasking operating system badly and
slows everything down. Its best to
have a close gadget on your window
and wajt for it to be cifcked on.
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routines. This way you don't have to
worry about messing up the library
bases and A6 by accident.
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and 1,1. but was superseded tty
OpenLlbrary which takes an
additional parameter for minimum
version. If you're not fussed about
version, specify 0.
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1993
VIDEO
This month there are two
exciting arrivals on the
video digitising scene:
Rombo's prIce-bustIng Vfdi-
Amiga X2, and the RoM^-Royce of
digltlsers, JCL's Coiourpic Plus.
Both oH«r powerful new features te
the Amiga vfdeo fan - though of
course they t>elong In quite different
price hracketcr Vtdt-Amlga 12
retahft at just under £100.
ColourFic Plus at Ju«t under £700^
So. just in case anyone might get
confu';ei1. Id likp tn make il clear
that tfiis is not a comparative review,
which ks why I've descnbeO each
digitizer separately- Although they
have many features in common they
are ur^rikeiy to he direct comp^frtftre,
Raint-r. tney represent !wo extremes
of a specialised market. Right,
e;i;ptariaLions over, now fedd on...
ROMBO VIDI-AMIGA 12
Whars black, comes from Scotland,
is a little larger than a packet of
raE3, connects to your Amtgas flisk
drive and parallel ports ar>d isn't
made from girders? Rombo's new
digitising box, the Vidi-Amiga 12,
that's what.
And Vtfhat exactly is a Vidi-Amiga
12? Easy. It's a hardware and
software combination which lets you
digitise video and turn it Into pictures
that your Amiga can understand. And
since It costs less than £100, a first
for an integrated colour video
grabt)Cf, it must surely be a bargain.
So what's the difference Ijetween
the Vidi-Amiga 12 and Rombo's
previous digiTising package. The
Complete Co/our So/^jf/on? That's
another easy one: there Is no longer
MUMMY, WHAT'S A DIGITISER?
A di^ti»er provides the means of
con vert J ng an analogue vltleo
■Ignal into dlgHaf data suitable for
use by a computer. If a colour grab
Is required the video signal must
be divided into its constituent red,
£reen and blue components and
•ach part then digitJsed soparately
- a step wtilch l« achieved tiy using
either an electronic colour splitter
when colour video Is being
grabbed, or a set of coloured Wten
when a blacli and white camera is
uaed. After ttie Image has been
&p1K and converted to digital data
K is passed to the computer and
the RGB data \s lecomblned by
software to produce a colour image
nie In a form which can de
displayed by the computer.
There are two kinds of digitiser
- termed Fast and Slow Scan
because of the relative speeds at
which they can grab an image. Fast
bean, as Its name suggests, scans
an Image quicKiy because ii uses a
frame store - a special hardware
device designed to sample and hold
ri video frame in memory. The
advantage of such a system is that
the captured image quality is
usually very high and frames can be
grabbed virtually Instantly from
iiinuing vidgo with few protilems.
Because the image is held in
hardware memory it remains
available for digitising until the
buffer memory b cleared or
rewritten. Fast Scan digitisers are
generalTy more expensive than Slow
Scan machines because they
VIDEO BSYHS or
INPUT I composite
VI DtD/ RGB
fonvcrler
DIGITISER
OUTPUT TO AMIGA
Here we see the basic mecfianlcs
of a digitiser - Just three stages
between the video and the Amiga
require more specialised hardware.
Slow Scan digitisers are just
that - slow. But take that advisedly,
as some are slower than others!
Newer generation digitisers like Vidh
Amiga 12 and DigiJiger 2 are m fact
verv nippy< taking only seconds to
grab in full colour. NewTek's
DigiView, still a popular digitising
choice, IS showing its age in the
speed stakes - it really is slow.
Because such digitisers are slow
they need to be fed perfect still
images, since any movement dunng
grabbing wkll either result in colour
fnnging when the individual R. G
and B files are recombined or
motion blurring in black and white
grabs. Mind you, some of these
'errors' can produce interesting
special effects if you can work out
how to control them.
Whether you've £100 or £700 to
spend, video digitisers are now
available to suit every pocket,
Gary Whiteley checks out whaf^
up for grabs
Rombo's Vttii-Amiga 12 (here pictured on top of the ColourPic Ptus) is the
firet Amiga digitiser for under £100. and offers great value for money and
remarkably good quality. But the ColourPic Pfas (ImIow) has more
connecters, more controls, and a much wider degree of flexibility
any ne^d for a separate colour
splitter as one is now integrated into
the new unit; S-VHS as well as the
usual composite video signal can be
used: the software has been
significantly retooled: the hardware
noticeably improved: and the whole
thing IS markedly cheaper than its
predecessor.
So, that s the
introduciions out of the
way - now let's get on to
seeing what the Vidi-
Amiga 12 cau aol
GRAB THIS]
As you might expect.
VidhAmsga 12 can
digJtise video m a range
of formats - from NTSC
to PAL and from 2
colours to 4096 (in lo-
res interlaces Rus it can
produce HAM-E renders
in 262.000 colours (if
you have one of Black Beit's now
obsolete HAM-E display devices) Of in
a 256<;olour mode called EREG.
which is designed with the new AA
chip set graphic modes in mind.
Ncymal screen sizes range from fo-
res (320 by 256 pixels) to hires
overscan (704 by 566), but the
digitising area can also be defined to
cover any rectangular portior^ of the
video image.
A Io^oSh 16-colour S-VK5 grab
taiien from a postcard
AMIGA SHOPPER # ISSUE 32 • FEBRUARY 1992.
VIDEO
The VidiAmiga 12 software Is
simple enough to use and I had no
crashes at all during testing, which
makes a refreshing change. In
addition to the mam display window
Uiere's a Grab menu for controlling
the firabbrng functionSn and
Mouthwatering scenes llk« this can
be easily grabbed with a normal
camcorder and vtOi^Amiga 12
Preference menus for setting up both
the Grab and Display parametprs.
Then there is the carousel menu
wtiich is used to get an instant view
of the images m the Amiga's memory
and to p!ay back sequences: the Edit
menu which contains picture
procQssinfitoois: and, imaHy, a
Load/Save requester.
IN THE PICTURE
At the heart of the V'^'-Amiga 12 is
the Grab Control menu, where aii the
main grabbing functions are laid out.
A& weM as being able to grab a
colour picture in one smooth
continuous action. Vtili'
Amiga 12 can also grab in
black and white. It can
also grab sequences of
Images from tape or Irve
action - though only »n
monochrome and at a
fairly slow rate of perhaps
one or two frames per
secondn depending upon
the selected grab size. If
you prefer to grab images
manually, for instance
with a black and white
Video camera ana colour
niter wh9el. each of the
RGB components car^ be grabbed
individually and then combined to
produce a ruli-colour image.
To make digitising easier a low-
resolution black-and-wnite preview
can be displayed, enabling framing
and focusing without the need for a
second monitor. Adjustments to the
image quality can be made with
slider controls for Colour. Contrast.
Brightness and vertical position, and
the whole im<$e cdn Ue flipped
around both the X and Y ajies prior to
grabbmg- Further brightness
adjustment is possible by tweaking a
screw on the side of the harriware.
Once an Image has been
grabbed and its colour components
mixed together it can t>e viewed to
ensure all is well. However, if there
is a problem the image cannot be
tweaked using the control sliders.
You have to adjust the controls and
do the grab again.
Before storing the
m^ge In memory you
can readjust the mix
by adding dithering
which mixes existing
colours together to
give the appearance
that there are more of
them), optimising the
palette for best results
or evenaltenngthe
grab format-
If the grab is OK
^ then hilling the Store
button will transfer it
to the Carousel and
memory buffer of the main screen.
This means that the stored image, or
last frame of a sequence Jf
Continuous grabbing was in force,
will be displayed in the window on
the mam screen - cliching on it will
cause it to be displayed full-screen.
ROUND THE CAROUSEL
Carousel is a film-stnp window where
all the images which are currently in
the memory - regardless of whether
they are animation sequences or still
frames - can be seen in miniature.
The whole lot can be played back on
screen as an animated slide show,
or a single frame can be loaded into
the main window for subsequent full-
screen display. Edit manipulation
A black and wnite pieview screen
helps you decide when to grab
and/or saving. Unwanted images can
be deleted - either singly or all
together - but there is no way of
selecting several pictures and
deleting them all at once< which I
thought was a small omission.
READY FOR EDIT
Edit is for globally processing an
image. A range of eleven effects is
available to embosSn false colour,
blur and generally mess about with
an image. Previously digitised
images (or other IFF files, for that
matter) can be loaded in and
processed in the same way as a
freshly-digiiised one. The effects are
certatnly interesting and, while I
personally wouldn't have much use
for them. I'm sure that many Vidi-
Amiga 12 owners will love them,
LOADING AND SAVING
After grabbing to your heart's content
you'd better save some of your
creations. Since Vidi-Amiga 12 can
grab either sttUs or animations it
makes sense that it can save both
as well. Anims and images are saved
as IFF fonnat files which can be
imported by other programs tor
I t ■Tlitl
real significance, and a call to
Rombo soon put me siraighL
LOOK AT THE QUAUTY
Notwithstanding the slight problems
mentioned above, the Vidi-Amiga 12
is a major performer, especjally when
using an SVHS source. I tned a
variety of video sources and was
generally happy with them all. As you
can see from the sample images rt Is
possible to get excellent quality HAM
images with Vtftt-Amiga 12 with any
reasonable quality v^deo si^iaL
Actually, I was very surpnsed at the
quality which Vidi-Amiga 12 could
deJjver - especially at such a
relatively low cost.
, Vidi-^if> \1 ifAl Pii* foAlrel V^ir^'^
lfu|t Cittril
ir*iirn ~ c^«iT]ra»
Simple layouts help you And your
way around the software supplied
wrth Virii-Amigsl2
further treatment or output.
Previously saved images and
animations can also be reloaded if
you so require.
SMAU TROUBUS
Of course not everything was
sweetness and light, but I only came
across one major problem. No matter
what I tried. I found it impossible to
got Vidi Amiga 12 Xo save a hires
image, even though all the settings
indicated that was what would
happen, instead I always got a lo-res
interlaced save - which wasn't what I
wanted. Actually, this isn't
completely true because when i used
an SVHS camera I managed to save
some hi'fes overscan imageSn but I
couldn't get the same results with a
composite input.
In fairness to Rombo I should
say that at the lime of review a
number of finishing touches were
bejng made to the software - I am
assured that this bug has since been
trapped and hilled, as have several
minor ones whtch I didn't spoti
However, one addition I would be
happy to see would be keyboard
short-cuTs. which always make life
easier for the user.
I did try to do a few things that I
shouldn't have, mainly because the
documentation hadn't t)een fully
completed when I was reviewing the
product- Consequently I had a few
smad problems, but nothing of any
Vidi- Amiga 12's
system requirements
are as follows: it will
' fl run on any Amiga
. fl computer with at least
W^M 1Mb of memory.
^^M though more will
W^ enable longer
[^1 animation sequences
to be grabbed.
A15CX)/2000 owners
will require a special
mnector cable
g I avail at) le separately).
A video source with
perfect freeze will also be required
for static colour grabs-
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With a
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unobtrusive
menu of the
Cabaret Plus
software
clearly visible
at the battoffi
of th9ficreon
CotourPic Plus is big. In tact K s the
biggest digltlser I've seen tor the
Amiga, measuring up at almost ten
incneb siquate ny fwo inches deep.
As the top of JCL's range of
digitJsera it's also got the biggest
price tag - nearly £700 - arid
probably the widest range of
fedtuies of any Amigd d^^ltlser.
Based on JCL's own custom chip
architecture the CotourPic Plus is a
fast-scan digiliser with unsurpassed
flexibility - and a few catches, as
you'i! seeiaicr.
PLUS HARDWARE
Inputs for the CotouiPtc Pius aren't
simply a matter of phono video
sockets - a look at the back of the
unit will show that It is studded with
connectors. In addition to the
humble i^ornposito vrdco input Eon a
protessional quality Hf^C connecton
Co}ourPic Pius also has inputs for S-
VHS (Y-C) and RGB video sisals. It
passes the Amiga UQB through to
the monitor and has both composite
and UHF video outputs. There are
two specidi flutllu connectors for
animation grabbing, ^nd the usual
parallel port connector. The whole
UiMig IS mdiTiSHXJwereU, so it doesn't
put the least strain on your ftmiga.
though oddly enough there is no
on /off switch. The stove-enamelled
meiol ceae is very sturdy and closely
matches the Amiga's colouring.
There ore tivo knobs which
control the ColourPic Pius, but only
foiir of them are needed for PAL
Operations. On the front panel are
controls for altenng Itie brightness,
contrast colour and hue (which only
works with NTSC systems) of the
incoming video signal, while on the
rear is a rotary knob for selecting Y-
C. composite or RGB video inputs.
As you'll appreciate, winng up a
ColoorPic P'us IS a little more
comploK than connocting your
average digitrser, but no more
aiTTlcull. Most of the necessary
LdUiKh die pfuvicJed. inuu^n you'll
need to rustle up your own
composite video connections and get
an optional RGB cable from JCL
should you require one. Fir^dlng
space for the CoiourPtc Pius may be
another matter - but it does fit nicely
under most monitors. SO all is not
I losi. hurtnermoreH there s no need to
^ fiddle with cables once the Colourpic
^^ jBffmuiEftUJf^
An S-VHS grab of a [wstcard. using
HAM colours on a io-re<^ screen
13 80t Up as II passes the RGB signal
through regardless of whether or not
it IS ponneotjsd to thf* parallel port.
PLUS SOFTWARE
Software- wise, the ColourPic Pius is
supplied with two programs. Firstly
tho etondard ColourPic digitising
software, which I found acceptable
though not amazing, and secondly
the new Cabaret Ptus program -
which is almost like chalk to
CoiourPic's cheese. To save space
ril skip mentioning the ColourPic
program entirely^ as Cabaret Plus
does virtually everything it does and
plenty more besides.
CABARET PLUS
1 was surprised at just how many
functions the Cabaret Pius software
contains^ In addition to the digitising
controls, animation grabbing menus,
polctte commands and load/save
menus there is also a suite of
graphics filters which let you do
special effects on grabbed images.
Upon loading the program the
nrsi ttiing io do is leii Cabaret Plus
the size you wish to digitise at. The
choices are from a[[ the usual
resuiuiiuns - lo-res. interlace, hires,
overscan and combinations thereof*
though ht-res interlace is only
available when an extra RAM module
A higher-reaolutJon 5-VHS grab taken
from a postcard with HAM colours
has been added to the ColourPic
Pius Itself, Once the size is set there
is no way to change it other than by
ewting Uie software and restarting,
so be sure that you've made the
right choice, because attempting to
load a different'Sized pre-saved
image back into the system will
result in a flat refusal.
Thai said, once the software is
[unning and video is ffowmg through
the hardware then things become
quite exciting. With a standard Amiga
RGB monitor a Simple press on the
space bar wUl flip back and fofth
between a crisp video display and
the Cabarer Plus screen. This on-
screen playback avoids having an
extra monitor dedicated to showing
the video nnd also helps when
grabbing sequences or specific
frames from live action, however, if
you prefer the Amiga monitor can t>e
used separately and the frame Store
output directed to either a composite
or UHF (aerial socket) display. The
video display itself is of a very high
quality, and all the more impressive
when you learn that what you are
watching IS actually a converted
video signal which is t)eing shown in
l&bit (64.000 colours) in real timeT
Grabbing is then just a matter of
waiting for ihe right image to come
along and hitting a hot-key to freeze
the video signal passing through the
CotourPic Pius 's framestore. Once
held in the framestore the image
remains available until a new freeze
is made, so it can be recalled at any
time if a subsequent change proves
unsatisfactory. The grabbed image is
then downloaded to the Amiga and
displayed on screen in the selected
number of colours,
A grabbed single Image can be
saved immediately in a range of
formats. There are all the normal IFF
file formats, including IFF24. plus
RGB.TARGA, JCL'S own CP fomiat
and the AIM (Another Image
Manager) format which integrates
with the AIM PD Image processing
software (available separately).
ColourPic Plus can load all the above
formats, plus DigiView and Sculpt
24-bit files.
USING THE FRAMESTORE
Because most Amigas can only
display 4096 colours there are times
when a grabbed image doesn't look
as good as it could. If you make
video productions ColourPic Plus can
Ije used as a still store to display
much higher quality images and pass
the output to video equipment for
recording and display, in ColourPiC
Ptus parlance this is termed
uploading, since it Involves loading
an image back into the framestore.
Any image which can be loaded into
ColourPic Plus can be uploaded -
including 24-dh images. Sculp: files,
Targa Tiles, and more - and shown in
64,000 colours on video. I tried
upJoadmg a 24'bit Imagine render
and. whilst not as smooth as when
displayed in 16 million colours, the
results were very acceptable.
COLOUR CONTROLS
After grabbing an image it can be
spruced up quickly by selecting a
new palette option to make it
sharper or softer. The number of
colours can also be selected, ranging
from HAM to 2 colours, with an
option to convert to 2'level black and
white as well as 16-level greyscate.
Any tweaks to the overall image can
be made with palette controls for R.
G, B, brightness and contrast, which
can be used before or after grabbing.
ANIMATION
ColourPic Plus can grab sequences
of frames direct from live video. It
can also grab selected sequences
X4 AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 77 m FEBRUARY 1993
VIDEO
from video lape automatically, but a
little preparatory work is necessary in
this C35f However, there are
Ijmjtatpons. based on the amount of
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FOT example, with the standard 512*^
fitted, only two francs of full-screen
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frames of 1/4 screen, 28 frames of
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srrppn arP alBO possible. Note That
tno smoUo'' screen sizes are not
comprcaaed versions of the whole
image* merely sections of it, though
it is possible to produce 1/4 screen
compression via software.
Sequence grstJbing can be
triggered manually, but ft can also be
done oulom otic ally. This is where the
audio ports on the back of the
CofouiPic Plus come in. Jf you
have 3 WR with audio dub
caDability. you can set an
audio marker where you wish
to start grabbing fn^m on the
lape. ColourPic Pius can tie
triggered by this audio marker
and will start grabbing at the
specifred pofnt. But don't
de&pair you can always add O
Efioft< loud noise to a tape
being recorded to get the same
effect If you haven't got an
audio dub facility. Extended
animations can be made using
this feature as the software
can recognise where it is and
make adjustments to start
digitising at the next
ungrabbed frame in the
setiueriLe. Aaailionaily, it <5
possible to tell the software
how many frames to skip after
the audio marker before tt
starts digitising.
Grabbed sequences can be
saved etther as IFF sequences
for assembly with other software,
such 99 Q<jl(jAG Paint IV, or saved as
special 64,000 co»our files which
can only be replayed with ColourPic
Plus. Personally 1 found that the
limited animation facility, while
interesting, was little more than a
novelty, but I'rn sure there ar© some
Who will rmd rt indispensable.
IMAGF PROCESSING
If you've spent ages getting a
pristine grab you're unlikely lo want
to mess it up with image processing.
But it IS entirely possible that you'll
need to process an image to use as
a background for another graphic, for
instance. By using the processing
fillers all hinds of operations can be
done on an imagen including
softening, averagingn gamma,
negative, embossing and so on, A
grand total ot 22 different effects are
currenMy avaf[able.
TRKKY THINGS
ColourPtc Plus has more tricks up its
sleeve- Grabbed images can be
flipped around both their x and Y
axes, or subdivided into four identical
images, or magnified so that a
portion of the Image is blown up to
fuU acrcen size - w^th all the
ANTI-A SUPER PACK
An Instant grab from VHS tape
attendant jeggies to boot- One half of
an image can even be mirrored
horizontally or verticaJly to produce
spl it-sy mm et ry pictu res .
WHAT'S THE CATCH?
Now, I dont want to be a spoilsport,
but surely for this sort of money it
should tie possible to easily grab an
Image in hi res interfaced overscan^
704 by 566 pixels for example?
Unfortunately thts isn't the case.
Cabaret Pfus can t handle it without
DATA SHARING
6om« r*ader« hav9 bwn
concerned about problemfi that
they have had using a paraUel data
transfer switch with the Vldl-Amlga
12 and their printers. I tried using
such a dvvlce with my AmlKii
2000 and had no problems at ail
when switching between printer
and digltlser.
However, a data switcher isn't
necessarily a good idea as the data
transfer rates between the digitiser
and the Amiga can be adversely
affected, possitily causing lost or
confused data - and hence bad
grabs - and so JCL expressly points
out that data switches should not
be used with its digitisers.
1 thought you might like to know
that Zen Computer Services has
recently released a bundle for
Amiga font buffs called the AntiA
Super Pack, which comprises
Z^n'l own AntiA font aliasing
program plus 2S AGFA
Coiiipugraphic loots In WorkBencti
2 Oullet format. Also Included are
four pre-scaled and antl^allased
versions of each font ready to use
In any graphics application which
con utilise Colorfents.
Amiga owners with Workbench
2.04 or greater can use the Bullet
fonts with any software capable of
scaling them on the fly. or make
them into Amiga bitmap fonts using
the WB2 Fountain program-
Because they are scalable they
don't produce tiie tagged edges
normally associated with scaling up
bitmap fonts, though they will never
appear perfectly smooth because of
the size of the pixels which make
up the Amiga's video display. For
great looking displays they can be
convened to Amiga Colorfents up to
180 lines high by using rhe AntiA
program to produce smooth edged,
antialiased Coiorfonts. The AntiA
Super Pack costs £82,25 inclusive.
Alternatively, if you already have
AntiA you can buy the Bullet fonts
alone (with no scaled and atiased
versions), for £49.35 inclusive.
Either way, if you're lookmg for
high QualJty fonts suitable for a
range of titling and graphics
appTJ cat ions you should seriously
consider these packs. I was using
them recently with Scala 1.1 and
MM200XO produce the graphics for
the Future Publishing stand at the
Future Entertainment Show just a
couple ot months ago and I must
say that I was very pleased with
their range and quality.
If you'd like to know more, or
would like to get hold of the fonts
for yoursert, both packs are
available direct from Zen Computer
Sen/ices, 2 Silver Birch Grave.
Swinton. Manchester M27 IFS
ff/Fax 061-793 1931. Note that
Compugraphic fonts in Bullet format
are not compatible with the
CGFonts used by programs such as
Professional Page and PageSetter
as they use a different CG format.
the addition of JCL's recently
released £150 RAM card. and.
though the older CoIourPic software
can do n. the process may take
several minutes. In its defence JCL
points nut that grabbing moving
images m hires interlace is pointless
because of undesirable motion
flickering problems - which is why
Cabaret Ptus includes a de-
interlacing routine. Fair enough, but
why should quality be compromised
when digitising a Still image from a
video camera, for instance?
A^ second gripe is about the
lack of dithering routines available
with ColourPtc Ptus. an omission
which surpnsed me. By adding at
least simple dithering to the image
processing operations I reckon that
tho display quality could be
Immensely improved and smoother-
looKing displays created.
I have to conclude that ColourPic
Plus certainly provides high quality
grabs, and has plenty of flexibility in
both its hardware and software. It is
extremely fast, and generally quite
simple to use, yet it is so highly
priced rhat i doubt it it will sell in any
significant quantity .
CotourPic Ptus requires: an Amiga
with at least 2Mb of RAM, rhough
more would be handy for large
images or grabbing animations. A
hard disk would also be useful to
cope with the large data files. ^D
ooooooooo
SHOPPING LIST
ColourPic Plus « »., £699
by JCL Business Syslems Ltd,
71 Si Johns Rd,
Tunbffdge W^b,
Kern TN4 90
IT 0892 516181
CHECKOUT
ColourPic Plus
Documentation • • • • •
Excel leni, nicely presented, well wnnen.
and full Of useful infonrraiion.
Features • • • •
Ali^osi everything you mighr need for
video digitismg.
Quality •••• •
Undout>tediy excellent.
Speed
Fast and clean-
Price Value • ••OO
Possibly overpriced, corisrdering the
compeUTion, but I suppo» you riave To
imi0l up the pros and cons.
Overall rating
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A very good digJtise:, afbeit expensive,
which unfortunately suffers from a lack of
hi-res irieriace grabbing m the basic
model.
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A R E X X
Welcome bach to
ARexx For Ail. Or, If
you Juat happen to
have found an Amiga
In your Christmas stocking and this
Is youf first tssue ot Amiga Shopper,
welcome to ARexx ForAiL For
tnote or you uvno might Do now to
the column, this b\x of the magoilno
b dodlcotcd to ARcam. the
programming
Isnyuage bundled ^^^^^^^^^
with ail Amigas-
includlng the latest
additions to the
Amiga family, the
A1200 and A4000.
5or wh*it is
ARexx anyway? it you
sturiiDitJci across (I ^^^^^^^^
on your Workbench
aisk, AHgkx 15 a powerful and very
versatile languagp To oul it in a
nuishoM. It can be uaeO lo write
compleie apDiications anO even
■script' files that control other
appffcation programs.
We haven't reaJly got the time or
the space to back tracks through ihe
last three months' wortn of ARexx
For All. so it you are new to the
1
''It can be used fo
write complete
applkations and
even 'script' files.*.
information that the scnpt needs to
execute, but n would be a lot nicer If
we could feed our ARexx scripts
information from the command line.
For example, say you were writing
an ARexx sen pi that merged the
information held within two files- This
sort of script would be far more
useful if you could feed it with the
filenames of the two f*ies when you
firs! run the script
^^^^^^^^" (just like an
AmigaDOS
command],
therefore leaving
you to gel on with
something more
productive, if the
scnpt couid accept
command line
arguments, it would
also be very useful
for use within AmigaDOS scripts,
indeed, you could use ARexx to
extend AmigaD05 considerably,
without having to resort to either C or
Assembler coding.
Not sufpnsinglyn ARe>[x does
allow you to do just that. What s
more, the process is actually ve^y
simple indeed. When a script is
executed, either using the RX
//
a I nil .
el*d3.^frg,re**
W-tnj c :ed3.0 db a Ijim,^hi ounJ toad
RX HrgrpvK l^*#d Rnigd SNopptr Eucru Honth
) - Redd Rr^iga Shoppy Euerv Honth
I - Read
Chopper
E =t
|uord.3 =
Mt)rd.4 *
3 4 5 6
□I Ed g.ae
irgmtents >^ ■rg< 1 )
SHELL
S^ELL
Isn't flfieMK uonderful!
uorflcount = uord^Cari
Kj n-l tg wonJtutJiit
uord.n = uOfd<3rgijnentS,r^l
end
to ri^l to worddwint b«i I
>Hlt
A vital ingredient for scrrpt-based languages: the ARexx function 3Tg() allows
you to pass arguments to your ARexx scripts from the command line
magazine and wish to learn more
about ARexx. I'd strongly recommend
that you spend that Christmas
money you received ffom your Auntie
Gertie on tjack copies of the last
three iB«uee of Amige SflOppsf- But
for the rest of you. let's get straight
an with mis month s installment of
ARexx coding...
STOP ARGUINGl
Up until now. the AReix scripts that
we've been wriung have been preiTy
useless to sav the least. As a
demonstration of the fundamentais
of ARexx coding they've served their
purpose admirably, tjui an ARexx
script (or indeed any program) is only
really of use if you can feed it
Informdiion in one form or another to
process. Now. you could use the pull
command that we covered in Issue
19 to prompt the user for any
command from the Shell, or when it
is called from another script, any
arguments passed to it are
automatically transferred to an
internal ARexx function called ARG(),
If the acnpi is executed from the
Shell, the arg() function copies every
argument into a single continuous
stnng of characters. These can then
be accessed by simply passing the
stnng returned by calling arg(l) into
a vanable. To do this, you just need
to add The following to your scrtpt:
arguments = argd)
MULTIPLE ARGUMENTS
Obviously this is a little limited. After
3ll» if you're passing two filenames to
a scnpt. you need to be able to
extract both filenames individually.
ThanKfuiiy, once The stnng has been
passed to a vanabie. you can then
split It into individual words using the
following snippet of ARexx code:
wordcount = words {argument b J
do n*l to wordcount by 1
word,ii = word{argumeni:a,n)
end
What this code does is to start by
counting the number of complete
words within the variable arguments
(which was initialised earlier with the
arguments = arg(l) call), using a
function that we haven't seen before
- WORDS(). WordsO IS a very simple
function indeed. All is does it to
count the number of words within a
variable. In this casen we've passed
it the van able arguments containing
all our command line arguments. The
value returned by the wordsO
function is then placed into a
variable called wordcount.
LOOPING THE LOOP
What follows is a loop that is
performed once for every word within
the variable, by counting from 1 up to
the total number of words within the
string I If There are 10 words within
the string, the loop is therefore
performed 10 times). On each pass,
the vanabie n is incremented (in
other words, 1 is added to it). This
variable is very important indeed as
it IS used as a son of word counter.
When It equals 2, ARexx knows that
we want to extract word 2. and so
Need to give your commands
further instructions? Jason
Holborn sho\vs hovs^ to have an
argument wiffi an ARexx script -
and still finds time to go fishing
for the latest PD ARexx software
n
LISTING 1 •
LISTING 1
AryC
1 daxt
Run 1
iay '
:bie script using RX Script
name <argl> <arg2> etc
-Argd) - - arg(l)
argument a - artjli)
vordcovnt ■ woidstarguinenta)
do n:
=1 to wordcount by 1
word
,n ■ «ord (arguir»ento,n)
end
do n-
■1 to wordcount by 1
say
"word-'n" » " word.n
end
oxlt
hA4^tk d-J^nnm ^IffllP ^^ ^ rrnm a m n\f
A R E XX
on. The task of extracting each
individuai word is left to the WORD()
function, another new function that
we fi9v>&n I fie9n tjefore
ARRAYED IN SPLENDOUR
The wordf) function is a bit like the
ScanJ() function in C. What it does it
to extract word number n from a
given string. For example, if n
eflualiGd 7. the seventh word within
the &lfing wguld De
extracted. The
Cj^troctod string is
then placed into a
siring array called
word, Siungarraya
ar& vpry (Simple in
BASIC, vou don't
have 10 tell ARe«(
how mflny plemi^nts
oro in tho array, AH
you fidve 10 Oo i& to state the name
of the atray followed by a full stop
('.'J and then the numt>er of the
©lomont within the array that you
wish to access. For ej^ampie, word,2
would bo the ARexn equlvaiont Cyf
wofdS^a^ In BASIC.
Once ail the words have twen
extracted, you can access each
argument individually Simply by
reading the value held within the
particular array element that you're
interested in. It you wanted to copy
the second argument into a variable
called varkabie2, you wouiO therefore
issue the following line:
varlableZ = word. 2
The flomonetration orasram givpn in
Li&iing 1 shows tne use of t>oth the
argO function and the word
extraction code that 1 detailed above.
Type il fn and play around with it.
Don I Torgt^r to pass some
argumems to the script when you
execute it. If you don't, it won't
actuaily do verv much!
'\f .you don't have
to tell ARexx how
many elements are
in the array.
if
PARSE THE PARCEL
ARexx does provide a method of
automaticairy extracting arguments
from argd) using the PARSE
command. We have looked at the
parse command before, when it was
used in conjunction with the puJI()
function to stop pull() from
converting the text that you entered
irito upper case characters. In the
case of the arg() function, parse can
^^^^^^^^^ also be used to
split a string into
individual words
(therefore removing
the need for the
code we covered
aDovei, but It does
X\^\^ one annoying
drawback; instead
of treating the
- - spaces between
each argument as
dividers, parse will treat spaces as
part of a word.
If you were to pass two
arguments to a script, the second
argument extracted by pars« would
have a leading space that you'd \\?n%
to remove before the word could be
used. If you just used the output
from parM as it stood as a filename
for accessing a particular f^le, ARexx
would be unable to find thai file
therefore generating an error
message. Listing 2 illustrates this
process at work^ and^ because I'm a
kind-hearted soul, also suggests a
good way of getting round it. The
main difference you'll notice between
this program and Listing 1 <s that the
line thai reads arguments = arg(l)
has now been replaced with parse
arg arti^umcntS,
r^ext issue we'll be taking a look
al how to write your own functions
and procedures and how to pass
arguments to these functions, 'n the
meantime, have a play with the arg()
function and I'll see you all, same
time, same place, next month, ©
/* parse demo ■/
Daras ara pa^raml ftfli'arn2 paramS param4
those parameters.., note the space!"
aay "Here ' s
•ay- pCLX^uol
oar param2
oay param3
say param4
/* SUciF vut apace... */
parBiii4 = space (paraiEHl)
say "flow with no space..
8 Ay parain4
oxit
Tht; PD libraries aren't Just full of useless Mandelbrot generators and
phone booh programs - they can also be an Invaluable source of ready-
madci ARexx utlimas and code. Here are just two or three ARexx utilities
you shouldn't be wKhout..,
EXECREXX
Fred Fish #463
Execftexx is a program that turns an ARexx script into an executable
program that can be njn from the CLl or WorkSench. This could come in
handy if you don't wish to distribute the source code for your ohginai scnpt.
or want to make an ARexx script ihat is easffy run by a WorkBench user
clicking on an icon for the executaoie.
The resulting executable stJll requires the rexxsystib .library (thai ts. the
ARexx server by Bill Hawes) as well as the Dissidents' rexxyib,/rbfao' (a PD
ARexx function library on Fish disk 393 that allows programmers to easily
add ARexx implementations). These must be m the LIBS: drawer of the
users t>oot disk. The ARexx server should be started via RexxMast (by Bill
Hawes), (t either of these libs is not present, the executable wiu post an
appropnate message to the user.
The resulting executable is fully re-entrant ar>d can be made resident
for improved speed. Othewisen there is no speed difference between the
executable and the original script. The added size to the executable is
minimal due to the Dissidents' rexxtib.library.
E\ecRexx isn't quite an ARexx compiler, but it's about as near as you're
likely to get. If you're not overly keen on letting others sift through your
ARexx code, it provides a very handy way of hiding your programming
efforts, while still maintaining full ARexx compatibility. In all. ExecRexx is a
must for the security conscious,
RCXXVIEW
Fred Fish #516
Written by talented PD programmer Martin Kees. this small utility can be a
real help when your ARexx scripts don't work quite the way they should.
RexxView is a smalt CUbased utility that monitors any messages sent to
the REXX port and then generates a text file containing information on all
the messages it encountered- This gives details of the task that sent the
message, the action code, modifiers and the content of the arg(O) function
(see the main body text tor more on this useful function!). RexxView is also
ideal for anyone contemplating adding an ARexx port to their own programs.
REXXRMF
Fred Fish #629
If you've ever wanted to wnte your own database program in ARexx, then
this function library is for you. The RexxRMF.Iibrary is a library which gives
ARexx programs the ability to maintain "indexes' of small files for the
purpose of providing fast search /sorting and retrieval of data records, The
ReKxRMF.fibrary covisisXs of several low level' functions that are used to
maintain a balanced binary tree (AVL-tree) to index your data files. Built on
too of the AVL-tree routines are 'high lever functions to provide simple
record management facilities.
RexjcffMf allows you to specify up to five alternate indices. What this
means is that you can have multiple keys for the same file. This allows you
not only to read a file by surname, for example, but also to use the month
in which a person was born as an alternate key index. So, you could use
the database as a reminder to send the person a birthday card in l*me for
their birthday.
In addition to the pnmary and alternate indices. RexxRMF maintains an
internal 'delete' index in order to locate and keep track of deleted records.
In total, as many as seven indices could be present in memory at any one
lime for a given file. Each node (record) will require about 76 keyiength
bytes per record. Thus 2000 records coutd easily consume 150K.
Data records, on the other hand, are loaded into memo^ when read or
written and are immediately discarded aftenwards. Data records can have
as many fields as you wrsh. as long as the total length of the record is less
than 65K, In all. RexxRMF is an ideal addition to any budding application
programmers toolbox, making the task of writing programs that need to
handle complex data files very easy indeed »
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Two photographs scanned and converted to 16 shades of grey by DaataScan
and AlfaScan Plus. You can make up your own mind as to whkh looks better
he goalposts have moved
somewhat since our last
round-up of hand scannorSr
Dack In Amiga Shopper
Iftiue 14. Th« conclusion of that
article was that the AtfaScnn Plus
was very powerful (but also very
pricey) and refgned supreme for line
£irt ccsnc. and that the Powor
Scanner, at half the price of the
AltffScan Phis, was the bee's knees
for producing IG-greyscale scans.
Just pipping the DaataScan on
quality, performance and price.
ThG AlfaScsn and DaataScan
peoples, whu w^rt^ boih quite naturally
a little shocked to leam that they
weren't producing the best Amiga
hend scanner, decided to Knuckle
flown and do Eomething about it. The
resuils of their iabours are new
versions of the software for each
scanner - Touch-Up 3.02 for the
AlfaScan Plus and DaataScan
Professionai 3.01 for the DaataScan.
Prices have dropped as well,
AifaScan down to £120^ DaataScan
down IQ £90. The DaataScan
software has had the most changes
made to it, so we'ii kick off the
contest with that.
With the release of new and
improved software, the battle for
the title of top hand scanner is
hotting up. Jeff Walker referees
Lat's get the bad news out of the
way first. On a basic Amiga machine
the DaataScan still corrupts Images
when scanning at 400 dots per inch
(dpi). Short black and white lines
0ppftar all over the image, so many
of them that It would take ages to
cle^n th&m up by hand. For some
reason, these corruptions only
Any part of a DaataScan Image can
be copied or cut to the clipboard,
after which It can t>e rotated (in 90
degree steps), flipped and resized
appear at 400 dpi: scans at all
other resolutions are fine.
On a faster Amiga - the 1200^
3000- 4000 Of any machine with
some kind of accelerator fitted -
there are no corruption problems.
While not a massive problem,
because 200 and 300 dpi are
probaDlyihe most usefui resolutions,
this is something that
ought to be fined; at the
very least a 'cleanup'
lealure should be
provided, which is how
the Power Scanner gets
around the same
pTOt)iem. The
DaataScan developers
say that a standard
Amiga Is not fast
enough to do a real-
time scan - 10 draw the picture on
screen as you are pulimg the
scanner over the image - and handle
the 400 dpi data transfer rate at the
same time. Bui the AlfaScan Plus.
which now does a real-time scan,
doesnt suffer these con-uptions,
which proves it can tte done.
But that's enough of what hasn't
been done - lets take a look at
what's new.
To star: with, the DaataScan
Professional screen has been
rearrangea slightly. The tool bar is
DaafsScan's Greyscale Editor
enables you to get In there and
dean up any rough bits. You can
even change the colour scheme to
create pseudo-colour scans
now on the ffghthanO side of the
screen, and the Master Page no
longer opens automaticaUy on
startup. Thjs leaves you with an
uncluttered screen comprising the
tool bar and a single window that
Shows part of the default A6 size
scanning area (about 4 by 6 inches).
At the foot of the tool bar is a
'1234" icon that enables you to
quickly choose a scanning resolution
from 100 to 400 dpi. The page size
can tw changed in the Settings
requester. A4. A5 and A6 buttons
are provided, or you can type exact
measurements into Width and Height
gadgets. The largest page size
allowed IS 48 by 48 inches, which at
100 Opj requires almost
3Mb of memory.
The reason you set a
page size is so that you
can scan many images
-kq ^"ectly onto a single
BQ :»dge, and subsequently
iave or print the whole
thing. Scanning at 300
dpi. an A4 page requires
juslover 1Mb of free
memory after the program
has loaded. You may scan directly on
to this page, in which case it will
overwnle everything that is already
or it. or you can scan to the Current
Area, which is a rectangular portion
of the page you have marked.
PLUG IN AND GO
In this way you can create exact size
pages with images in exact positions
on the page, if you are really, really,
really careful, it's even possible to
scan a wide image in two adjacent
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halves, although thrs is only lor those
with the patience of saints.
Many users will want to slmofy
bCdn dn inidge auU Lhen bdve it lor
importing into onoJhef program - an
art package, worO orocessof or DTP
program perhdpc. In ihic case you tl
simply rm the correct Ouiton lo set
Ih^ r^^gotuUnn. ni^kp <;ure that tri9
Unobs on tho scannor unit are 5ot
carrecily. define Ifit? wiuin and ienglti
of your scrtn irt lli*- Setungs
requester^ hit tho Scari to Page
button, and away you go It must be
said that DaataScan Professtonat's
greatest strength is that it is very
Simple {Q operate (nOeeo.
Sometimes ^cans oppcar too dark
or too light. DsataScan's Lighten
and Darken options are a quick way
10 enhance xham
Ttie Wide 51 image you can scan
is 4.13 inches, which ia the wiOth of
the scanning head. This might vary
Slightly from one scanning head to
another, but you can bank on a! least
four inches width. Length can be
anything from a quarter Of an inch 10
dfi inches.
tioxi. I he DiEfier
you aei the scanning
area or page', and
the higher the
scanning resolution
you Ghooae, the more
memory will be
required, ifyouoont
nave enough ryiemory.
DaataScan wdl let you
choose only
combinations for
which you do t]3v9 enough. It you've
got lots of memory, the buffer sue'
can be set in the Preferences
requester, wnicn is tne numo&r of
Ktiufjvies you are aHowinR OdsiaScsn
Prof&ssionat iQ use , OaataScan
Proiesssonai wi\\ grab' this amount
of memory anO not lei ir go (mainly
for reasons of speed). So, If you
want to multitosK, don'l set this
buffer figure too high.
SHADES OF GREY
The big changes to ve'sion 3.01 of
the software can be found in the
Greyscale menu and an new icon in
Uie luoi tjdr - EUit GitfybUdty- After
converting a scan of a photograph or
coloured illustration to 16 shades of
grey, you are thrown directly into the
new Greyscate Editor, As the bTack-
and- white dither is converted to grey,
the image in the Greyscaie Editor is
Updated in reaJ time. This is a nice
toucn because, depending on the
si/e of the page, ii can take a while
to complete, and watching the
scrooo update is much more
pleasant than staring at an hour
glass, stopwatch or 'sleepy' pointer.
The Greyscale Editor runs on its
own screen. The tefthand portion of
this screen contains your greyscale
picture, while on the right is a tool
bar that contains some simple
drawing too is and a cofour selector.
Further goodjes can be found *n
the menus. The Edit menu has
- Lighten and Darken
pT options, I think you
can guess what they
[oB' do, and they do it.
like the greyscale
conversion, in reaf
lime. The processes
are destmctive.
though. By that I
mean that three
consecutive Darkens
after three
consecutive Lightens
do not result in the original image.
There are three zoom levels -
Normal, limes 4 and limes 8 - which
come in handy for cleaning up any
rough or dirty areas of your image.
The really fun stuff is in the
SetUngs menu. In here is the Change
Paiette option, which puts up a small
requester that enables you to change
the 16 shades of grey to any 16
colours of your choosing. WUh the
aid of the drawir^g tools and a liUle
ttHiiUm~TfiT*iii^t\ II tf3.|1 (rmr'tTiT^TBr
You can print your images direclly
from the Greyscale Editor, A print size
of 100% is the default, and there are
buttons for 25%, 50%, 75% ar}(i
200%. A string gadget allows you to
enter anything from 1% to 9909%.
THE FINISHED PROOUa
Pnntouls at 100% will always look a
bit blurry because the image's screen
resolution is a oaiiry 75-»sh dots per
inch. While scaling lo 50% results in
a smaller image, it will aJso be a
sharper one. Pnniing is achieved via
Workbench Pnnter Preferences, and
the dither patterns provided by
Workbench make as good ajotj of it
as Ihey can. if you want to enhance
your printed greyscales then you'll
need to have TurboPrint Professional
running in the background.
Both the scanning and greyscate
parts of D^f^i^Scan Professional run
on a custom 640 by 256 screen. II
cannot njn on the Workbench, and it
cannot be opened on any other type
of screen - not even an overscanned
one. This was a conscious decision
by the manufacturers because most
of their customers have only a little
memory- 1 can understand the logic Of
this decision, but 640 by 256 is a
hornWe resolutton to work wH^ for
scans because everything appears
elongateO on The screen. It might be
an idea to givt Uioae who do have Uie
hardware the opUon to use the
software on a 640 by 512 screen.
DaataScan Professional has
come on in leaps and bounds since
the first vcision and now forms the
basis of a seriously professional
piece of so It ware. The new Lighten
and Darken features mean that the
greyscales it produces are at least on
a par, and someUmes better, than
those produced with the Power
Scanner, I hope the developers
continue to develop it. with particular
reference lo two areas: the new AA
chipset, which means that images
can now un theory) be converted and
displayed in 64 shades of grey: and.
of course, eradicating those annoying
400 dpi glitches, €D
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DaataScan
Ea^e of Use • • • • •
Hard scanning CO jidn'l be Sirnpler, Click,
click, scan.
Features • • • ;
If It had lots of sophisticated features it
wouldn t be so fast, nor so easy to use.
Speed • • • • :
Prelly QutcK. but riot quick enougr> to read
The 400 dpi data afxi update the screen at
the same time on a standard Amiga, No
probs at 300 dpi or be row though.
Documentation •••00
I'd like to see a tJigger manual wirh lots Of
en a moles and hints - with pafticular
reference as to how to ftet the Oest
pnniDuts and how to use scanned images
Willi word processing and tiesMiop
puOiishifig software.
Price Value • • • •
II s now the cfieapest Amiga hand scanner
on ihe market. II does enough at the orice
lo make it \efy good value.
Overall rating
AB5Dlutely perfect tor the non-techie user
wiih a limited amount of memoiy.
There's defmite room for
Improvement here- The DaatBScan
palette requester needs functions
Hke Spread and Copy
lime and paUence, it's quite easy
(and great fun) to turn a boring'
greyscale into a tairly pleasing colour
picture, The drawing tools provided
are Pencil [freehand). Line.
Rectangle. Polygon and Ellipse - the
shapes can be filled or unfilled. The
Undo button in the tool bar comes in
handy when you make gaffes, but It
only reverses the last drawing
function performed.
No other Amiga hand scanner
software has a Tejil tool, but this one
does. Any font in your FONTS:
directory can be selected and typed
onto the image, in any colour.
AitaScan Plus is the name of the
completo hand scanner package -
the software Is called Touch-Up. fVly
two big gripes with earlier
incarnations of Toucfi-Up were its
poor greyscale conversions and the
lack of a real-time scan.
No real-ume scanning meant that
ff you got the brightness wheel setting
wrong you had 10 wait until you'd
frnished the whole scan to find oul.
Real time scanning means you can
see what's commg out of ihe scanner
- you can twiddle the brightness knob
and see tlie results straight away.
The problem with the greyscales
was possiDly subjective - my opimonn
in other words. Migraph, makers of
Touch-Up, couldn't see much wrong
with mem. But when you put them up
against scans from nval scanners, the
If you hit the Landscape button
before scanning sideways. TaucthVp
will a litem atlc ally rotate your scan
by 90 degrees so it appears upright
Touch Up scans always appeared dark
and a bit blurry on screen. And the
lack of specific Lighten and Darken
options means that image processing
has to be done by using patterned
masks', a lechriiQue that most non-
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techie users don't really understand
and so cant really use properly.
There was one other private gripe
I heidn and That was that TouchVp
didn't look or feel much like an
Amiga program. It was more like
using a mixture of an Alari ST and an
AddIg Macintosh, and while There (S
n^thinf^ particularly wrong with the
wdy clUicr Of these computers works,
I'm using an Amiga and I want it To
The TQuGti-Up page ske can tw
altered aX any time wUhout losing
what's on the page. The DPI settings
are dn aid to publishers, ensuring
that the dimensions In the other
gadgets are the correct sizes It the
Image Is printed at that resoiutlan
look like I'm using an Amiga. Vou
know: 3D Outtons QnC snaers, proper
Amiga menus, requesters and
keyboard short-cuts, and all that sort
of thing.
I'm happy to say that this latest
version of Touctt-Up. version 3.02. is
one of the most eye pleasing pieces
of Amiga software I have used.
SPEED VS POWER
Touch-Up will open on the Workbench
screen or its own custom screer^.
The custom screen can tie any size
you like - so it can b€ an
overscanned and interlaced one. for
example - and you have the choice
of running in two colours to save
memory, or four colours if you want a
pretty interface.
If you specify Tool Types figures
for Width and Height Lhet are greater
than the screen's physical
dimensior^s, then with Workbench
vefsions 2 and above the 'autoscroN'
feature comes into play. This means
that moving the pointer to the edge
of the physical screen quichly scrolls
the actual screen in that direction.
So It's possibfe. If you have
sufficient memory, to create a 2.400
pixel Uy 3,300 pixel screen which
con display an 8 by 11 inch area
when scanning and printing at 300
dots per inch.
If you open a regular-sized
screen - say, 640 by 512 - then you
can still have a larger page' size,
but you will have to scroll around this
page using the locater tool or the
window's scroll bars.
The first point to ma(<e about
Touch-Up Is that it is extremely
powerful. The second point is that it
can be extremely slow. There is a
good reason for This. I expiamed
earlier how OaataScan Protessionat
allows you to set a 'buffer size',
which IS The amount of memory the
program will grab for its own
exclusive use. Touch-Up 6oeso'i 6q
this. It does it The way Amiga
programs should do it,
dynamically - it looks for
and grabs memory when
it requires It, and gives
memory back to the
system when it is no
longer using it.
Most operations
require a fair chunk of
memory, and if you've
not goT much, or if that
memory has become
fragmented by use, then
Touch-Up has to grab b<ts
and pieces where it can.
and make the best use
of them. This memory management,
while friendlier to a multitasking
environment, takes time.
Tf you've got a large amount of
memory then ro(Jch'{Jo works faster
because it will be able to find a
chunk of memory the size it wants
much more quickly.
The other reason Touch-Up can
appear to be a slow program is
memory then you might get fed up
with how sluggish it feels. An
accelerator board will change all this,
of course.
A SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
But then if you are the type of person
who doesn't enjoy reading manuals,
learning about hundreds of features
and experimenting to see "what
happens if I do this?", then you will
probably hate TouctJ-Up. It's a highly
professional tool with a lot of highly
professional features which will
probably be totally new concepts to
'r- Jlr,
~"T
.1
Touch-Up's rotate function Is one of
Its most powerful features. It takes
a while to complete, but U
extremely accurate
because many of the operations it
can perform are 'processor intensive'
- or, in other words^ they take a long
trme. This will Include operations like
rotating an image to any angle,
slanting an image, changing the page
si^e while retaining me data on that
page, or even an apparently simple
Job like moving an image or 'clip"
from one part of the page to another.
All these operations require a lot
of memory management and time d
They are To be com Dieted accurately.
Now There S not a single doubt in my
mind That Touch-Up is by far and
away the best hand scanning
software for the Amiga. But if you've
got only a couple of megabytes of
Any stray black or white pixels In
your scan can be eradicated with
the Cleanup option
you. All fairly mmd-expanding stuff.
The large manual does a pretty good
job of explaining everything, tDut it's
definitely not written with
the beginner in mind.
Then again, if you are
the type of person who is
prepared to expenment
and learn about dithers,
grains, tiezier curves,
masking and a plethora of
other scanning and
drawing paraphernalia,
then you are probably
going to learn an awful lot
from Touch-Up. irrespective
of whether your machine
has a large amount of
memory or not.
GET SET, GO
Another piece of good news Is That
scanning with Touch-Up is not as
complicated as it at first appears.
Everything can be done Irom the tool
bar. First you hit the Scanner icon,
then the Scan Settings icon. From
this requester you select your scan
resolution, the length of your scan
(up to a maximum of 14 inches), and
whether you are scanning in
Landscape (sideways) or Portrait
(upright) orientation. If you are
scanning sideways across an Image,
by selecting the Landscape scan
option Touch-L/p will automatically
rotate the image by 90 degrees and
display the image the right way up on
the screen.
Settings set, you hit The Scan
button and pull away.
Touch-Up now does a real-time
scan, whrch can be switched off by a
Tool Type if you don't like realtime
scanning. To conserve memory and
aid speed the program opens a two-
colour 320 by 200 pixel screen for
this real-time display. As stated
previously. 400 dpi real-time scans
on a standard Amiga do not get
corrupted by the short black and
white lines that mar the 400 dpi
DaalaScan i mages -
(Look, I'm not a programmer, so
far be it for me to give advice in this
area, but might the secret of
gliichless 400 dpi real-time
scans lie in that small low
resolution screen? It might
not display the full width of
the scan, but it's more than
good enough for seeing if
you have the brightness set
correctly and if you are
scanning in a straight line,
which is all you need it forj
Like DaataScan
Professional. Touch-Up will
let you specify a page size
and then scan images into
a specified area^ or yog can
scan directly to the page.
Touch-Up has several ways of dealing
with scanned data that is oven^vriTing
something else on the page. Default
IS Replace, which wipes out anything
underneath (like DaataScan} but
there's also Transparent, which
places what you are scanning on top
of what's underneath so thai the
while areas of the scan are see-
through'. Two other modes - XOR
and Replace Transparent - could
also come in useful.
PICTURE PROCESSING
For line art scans Touch-Up has
some useful processing facilities.
The Bold option enables you to
automatically add black pixels to the
black parts of the scan m the
horizontal and/or vertical directions.
Cleanup will remove isolated black
pixels, white pixels, or both. The
OutUne feature is fun - it removes
the inside of black lines, hollowing
them ouT so that they can be filled
with a pattern.
The other item in the Process
menu is Mask. Like Bold. Cleanup
and Outline, this works on the area
of the scan you have dragged out as
a clip' area (basically the same as
the Current Area in DaataScan).
which can be the whole image if you
like. Mask takes the currently
selected pattern - there are 36 to
choose from in three resolutions, so
108 in all - and applies thaT pattern
to everything m the clip area.
Using one of the regular sTipple
patTerns as a mask it is possible to
lighten or darken a scan of a
photograph. Now this masking
technique is nowhere near as user-
friendly as Simple Lighten and
Aftlir^A CU/^nOED A ICCIIE tt a EEDDIIADV IOO^
D E S K T.OR^^U atJ S H I N G
Darken menu items, and it may take
a while to wrap your brain around the
concepT. But I! is a more
sophisticated techniQue than simply
adjusting the 16 shades of the
converted greyscate image up or
down one value, which is what
DaataScan does.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY
Touch-Up can rotate clip areas to any
angle in 01 degree steps, and it can
also slant or "shear" clips horizontally
and verticaLFy. As well as being able
to flip clip areas horizontally and
vertically, which any scanning
software can do, Touctt-Up c^n mirror
an irn;4gP tn rhfi loft, right, above or
below the clip, **;hich makes it easy
to create 'tiled* Images or fancy
borders, for o>iQmpJe.
There aro fotir levels of
magnification: Normal, 4 times, S
times and Full, the latter being a
'thumbnail' representation of the
complete page that is similar to
DaaraScan s Master Page feature.
Clip areas in Touch-Up can be moveiJ
by pointing infiido the area, holding
down the left mrnjcP huttnn ;^nri
dragging the mouse. If you hold down
Shirt at trie same lime, whatever is
in that clip ^rua get? moved.
As well as
scanning into clip
areas, you can loac
Into them, with the
option to ktiep Ihg
imaged aspect
ralio. Of ignore it
ond rescalc the
Image to Tit the
area. Any IFF'ILRM
Image can he loaded
UDto Extra-HalfBrite
and HAM, hut not
yet the new AA
Chipset for mats.
Coloured pictures
gel converted into
black-and-white dither patterns,
IFF-ILBM. IMG, PCX, TIFF,
MacPaj^f and Pr/nlMasfer images
can be loaded as full pages, and you
are given control over how coloured
images arc converted to blatkand
white dithors. This is another
powerful feature of Touch-Up that
norvtechie users may find confusing.
Reading the manual, experimenting
and remembering are the keys to
unlocking this dOOr,
300 DPI IN THE SHADE
Clips or whole pages can be saved in
eieni formola. imLDM. IMG. PCX.
TIFF. Degas. Q\r. MacPaint ar\6
PnntMastcr, These are in black and
white only.
Greyscates can be saved in three
rormais: 15 colour iff-ilbm, 256-
colour TIFF or 24-blt IFFILBM.
Despite the Impression given by the
adverts, the latter two formats
contain only 64 shades of grey -
because they have been scanned
wtn a 64'greyscale hand scanner.
These images can't be viewed on
(dare I say it) an 'old' Amiga; Amiga
1200 or 4000 owners should be
able to view the 24
bit IFF-ILBM images
but I havent yet
been able to test
this. All three
grey scale formats
can be imported
and printed by
PageStream:
Professional Page
can handle the 24-
bii and 16-cofour
IFF-ILBMs;
PageSer(er//and all
of the graphics'
word processors
can take the 16-
colourlFFILBMs,
The quality of Touch-Up's 16-
greyscale images is much improved.
They look a little less sharp on
screen, but when scaied flown to
increase the output resolution, the
printouts now almost always look
better than the same picture
scanned with rival scanners,
especially with a printing package
lihe TurtoPnni Professional. Touch-
Why would you want lo work on
images this size? Because Amiga
bitmaps are low resolution [75 dpi)
and print out at 100% scaie with
jaggy edges on curves and diagonals.
Touch-Up has 36 bullt-tn All or
painting patterns In three sizes. If
these aren't enough you can paint
your own pattern, cut It out as a
brush and paint with that
Up has no direct printing facilitieSn so
you must import your picture into
another program that can print.
The drawing facilittes in Touch-Up
are superb, but designed specifically
for working with large black-and-white
im^es, Vou cant work on the
greyscale image directly; this needs
to be saved and imported into a
dedicated colour painting package.
Some consider this a weakness
when in fact it is a strength; If you
are a monochrome desktop publisher
and you want lo work on massive 2-
colour bitmaps - 4,000 by 5,000
pixels tor example - Touch-Up is the
only Amiga program that can do the
job. I must stress again, however,
that you need the memory to work on
pictures of this size.
For working on black-and-white line
art Touch-Up Is far more usefur than
any Amiga painting package
But create the image big and scale it
down at pnntlng time to 25% of its
original size, and each pixel becomes
l/300th of an inch instead. The
jagged steps are now so tiny that It
Is hard for the eye to see them.
PROFESSIONAL PRIDE
Mjgraph has been working hard on
Touch-Up. It has come a very long
way since version 1,0, and if you
have an earner version you should
consider upgrading. In the Scan
Setting requester there i3 now a
'Type; Hand' option, so flatbed
scanner support may be ors the way.
YOU may or may not be interested in
this - J'm merely pointing out that
further development is Still ver> much
on the cards.
Some early versions of Touch-Up
have OuEs that cause crashes. I've
used version 2.Q2 extensively (on a
Workbench 2 machine) and it teels
solid as a rock. It's a truly
professional piece of work aimed at
the professional or semi-professional
user. But you do have to put your
mind lo it - it's not so much that
Touch'Vp IS difficult to use, it's
simply that it can do so much that
novices can feel a bit swamped by
ihG technology. ©
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The really great thing about the
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and price. And of course both
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Tfiis mear>s that Power
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So whichever you decide to
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and therefore become eligible for
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FOR FUTURE
PRESENTATION
And It looks like Tve just go!
enough space left to mention the
colour hand scanner that Power
Computing has been advertising for
quite some time now.
Power displayed the prototype
at the recent Future Entertainment
Show and there were a few small
problems with the software, which
the developers are currently in the
process of ironing out - so beware
of early reviews elsewhere.
My guess is III be aOle to take
a look at the proper finished
release versfon for you in neJrt
month's column.
lyiLFAScAN Plus
Ease of Use •••OO
A bit ol a s;eeo learning curve, but well
worth ihe effort.
Features • • • • •
No other Arriiga nana scanner software
can currently match the features packed
into Touch' Up,
Speed • • • O O
Gets faster The more memory you have.
Documentation • • • • #
Exceifeni manual, auriougri ii does pack a
lot in and cracks along At $uch a fasr pace
that the rontechie might teei a bit
bemused by it alL
Price Value • • • • Q
As well A5 tne scanner head, mrerface an<j
Touch Up sofT*are, >ou also get the
Merge *t program, which enables you to fit
two halves of a wiOe scan together to
create one big in^age.
Overall rating
o
If it had some greyscale image processing
lOOfS like tinghtness. contrast and gamma
controls, it would be near perfect. AA
chipset support rnust now be a priority.
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E D UC ATI O
here's no denying that a
well-chosen illustration can
liven up the appearance of a
document. By prov^ing an
extra way of grabbing the reader k
attention, as well as enhancing tha
overall appearance, picture a can
goin those ojitra mofhs that mohc
□M the difference between an
flufirage gr^fie and an 'A',
However, we dor^'l all have the
hme to scorch for suitable source
maienai. ana on top ot tnat, there
are problems of copyrlgm. The PD
world does offer many possible
aolulions. but the range 0/ images is
rrot always at the highcai order. and>
more imponanily. The DulK of me
iKidges may De irrelevant to your
partlcjliar needs.
So, this month I would like to
introduce you to tnrcc auitc dirtorent
forms of professionally-produced clip-
Sft, and show how you can
Incoroorate them into your work.
THE HOUSE THAT t BUILT
Whether for architectural studies, or
for developing images of buildings as
part of a larger picture, HoubvUuiltief
from Diskotech offers a huge
assortment of various building
designs, enabling you to construct a
mansion to your own requiroments.
All of Ure various components die lo
the same tcale: roof and wall
pattfirns are both co[our co
orOlnated, and adjacently
interlocking, so that continual
rep(^[iiions of orusnes ao not show
coritUcting jcints.
Empioving Mo!JseOuiiaeneQii\re^
the user to have DPaifH ond
sufficient memo7 to be able to
toggle between two screens, As the
different files on each section are
loaded, you then just collect the
appropriate but Id log companonte*
and consirucr a building according to
choice- The permutations are
enorrt!uub, and, I imagine, should be
adequate for anyone.
DES RES FOR SALE
Once the desired building has t«en
constructed, then it can be imoorted
into a different pacKage such as
WiJ(dwonf} or Hnai Copy. There it can
be incorporated into a Drochufc
design to produce a very
professionaMoohing result. Scaling
c^n be achieved by increasing the
oogc size, or using the brush facility
to eniflfgo the finished product.
Should you find that a particular style
or design i!^ lacking, then the range
of building components can also be
extended, either by developing the
GXisimg solutions, or designing your
own from scratch.
In tho example l have produccdn I
wanted to represent a brochure from
a small builder who is advertising a
development of mews-type terraced
accommodation.
IN THF DERReST f*RRT Of THIilN
Above: Hundreds of components are available to construct your own house design
fright; Once I had completed the linal design of the terrace for my broctiure,
I was able to add the wording to complete the finished graphic, all
without leaving DPaint. The picture was then ready
to be Installed into a brochure design
Stuck for an illustration?
Then look no further! Wilf Rees samples
some novel developments in the field of clip-art.
PLUS: New budget-priced programs reviev^ed
You can see where ! have
employed the various components to
construct the ohgirrai- then
duplicated the first to produce a
ten-ace. From there, the completed
Image is saved as an IFF file, then
imported into my word processing
package^ where the required text is
flowed around it. The components
can be used for more than
constructing a finished building -
they could be used as discrete
elements in any graphic, even if
related 10 a different topic.
The easiest way I found to go
about drawing my intended row of
ten'aced houses was to work in
DPaint and use the spare screen
{you can toggle between the screens
using the j' key). I used the main
screen as my loading screen, then
simply loaded the data off disk,
grabbed the desired piece of clip-art
as a brush, and moved over to the
spare screen. Working this way- t
gradually built up the des^red image,
adding elements selected from the
different directones of examoles.
Once the individual image was
completedn it was simply a case of
grabbing the whole house as a
brush, and duplicating the house to
create a terrace. You could even flip
the brush on the horirontal axis to
create a mirror image, thus adding a
bit of variety in the overall design.
ON THE MOVE
Also from
Diskotech is a
range of clip-art
with a difference.
Under the genera!
banner of
MowiecHo. you'll
find a collection of
disks which lake
clip art further
than the usual cut
and paste.
This range of
dis^s contains a
sencs of
animated clips
for loading into
the Anim feature
I experimented using the
animations against a black
background, and also tned
superimposing them over a video
recording of the Famborough Air
Show. This latter effect was made
iifaiiiiiiii&b
of DPatiM or AMOS. First release
titles cover a comprehensive range
of modern and pertod transport [by
land, sea, water and air). Each disk
IS full to the bnm and. as well as the
ready-made animations, there are
also backgrounds against which the
animations can be run.
You can stage your own air show
with the animations provided as
part of the Movieciip series
possible by using a genlock [a device
for linking video signals to your
Am^ga graphics). The result showed a
picture of the main runway at
Farnborough. with an an^matlon of a
AWTGA SHQpp&R % ISSUE 12 % FEBRUARY 1993 TB
E DUC A-TIO*
helicopter taking off. hovering, and
then flying away into the distance.
Combining these two features
pri^duGOS o rcijiiy strange effect,
aionft ihc linos of the film Who
Framed Roger Rabbit?. You could
Mlirhni
■wniibkanii
An sxamplft of the quality of the clip-
art on the two Human Biology disks
from Think Ltd. ThiG beautifully-
illustrated example of a human skull
ie 3nntomiC£)lly correct In fine detail.
and tho major Gkoletal par1« are
I demised. All ot the clip-art \% In
hkgh-r«. so the definition Is of the
highest possible order, without
makinj; your eyes bogf^lo
lahe any of iiie transport cllp-ari
images and animate the vehicle over
■i tikf
1*1
Vllballl
the top of 3 video. Another change
you could make is to customise the
decals on the vehicle, m order to suit
your particular assignment.
In our example ot an animation
created with MoviecUp. a Ranger
helicopter is made to
perform various
aerobatic stunts. The
process couldn't be
simpler, as the
t>ackdrop is supphed
on the disk, and all of
the stages m the
movements are
supplied as clip-art. All
the user has to do is:
1, Working w(th
DPaint. select the
spare screen,
2, Load the
desired background,
3, Set the number
of frames which are to
be used in the animation.
4. Return to the main screen and
load the first file.
5. Select the chp as a brush, and
swap screens (toggle with key j).
6< Plant the first image wherever
you wish it to go,
7. Return to the main screen and
select the second image as a brush.
8. Swap to the spare screen and
place the brush over the first image,
using the comer guides provided.
ih -1
9. Record this as the second
animation frame, using key '2'.
10. Continue to repeat this
pattern of loading the image files,
grabbing them as brushes, swapping
screens, and then recording them as
animation frames.
When you are finished, simply
press key '4" and watch the
helicopter take off slowly, hover, and
gradually move away.
Remember. it is also possible to
change the colour scheme on any of
the clip-art, but i really advise you to
save any modified matenai as
separate files, and not on top of your
original disk.
DOCTOR'S ORDERS
This months third collection of clip-
art is from the same company as my
review, which follows this section.
Think Ltd produce a range of
sophisticated clip-art aimed
particularly at science rn education.
Entitled Human Biofogy. the
package comes as two disks of
highly detailed black and white line
drawings of human anatomy. These
are an absolute must for anyone with
an Amiga who is following Biology at
GCSE Of A level. The same principle
applies as for the other examples of
clip-art: once youve identified the
appropriate image, you simply
incorporate it into an assignment.
The two disks cover virtually
every aspect of human biology you
will ever cover, and just so you can
customise them, here is a useful tip.
The files come in two versions, one
with Jabels and one without. Try and
incorporate the file in such a way as
to make <t appropnate to the
particular topic you are coven ng.
Don t include any label unless it is
absoluteiy necessary, and if you have
the benefit of a colour kit on your
printer, import the ctip-art into your
favourite paint package and add
colour to the items you wish to
emphasise. The secret of a good
illustration is that it does e?iactly
what it says, and no more. CS
OOOOOOOUO
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JIgsow £ 9.99
Move II and Slide It! £ 9.99
by Think Lid
ir021-34B416B
Think Lid ia a Birmingham
company which, amongst other
things, has recently produced
some interesting educational
software. Some of you may
romombor tho company's
"Alfred Arm\ a very weii-Ouiit.
aixJ extremely useful rotiot drm
used fn sctnujs id teacn
control and related topics.
Think Ltd has since turned
its attention to an assortment
of other activities. The
processor v^ich sat in the base
of the Alfred Ann was
developed Uy TnmK Ltd. and sold Dy
the DuoKcUoad lo the inldud
Waterways to help monitor pollution.
However, as \ said earlier, Think Ltd
haa abo come up with a rongc of
products in the field of educational
softwaro- Wi I will now do a mini round
up of just two of these modestly
priced, but clever packages,
ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLES
WorHing wiw P!CWres is a series of
interactive picture-based puzzles and
activities, suitable not only for use in
schools, but also as a source of great
amusement, (and frustration!) to any
age group.
An example of one of the pictures in
the Move It and Stitte tt! program
There are two similar packages
under this label, called Move It and
Slide fit and Mgsaw.
Move It ana Slide tv is based on
those annoying puzzles where you have
the numbers 1 to 15 mixed in a
random pattern around a 4 by 4 grid.
By a process of sliding the elements
around- you eventually get the numbers
in the correct sequence. With this
package, instead of numbers you have
pictures, and they are in full colour.
The user has the choice of deciding
how complex the puzzle will be, by
deterrnlning the size of the grid. It is
then a funous race against time to try
and complete the puzzle. An on-line
heip facility allows you to view the
completed picture, which believe me is
a must if (like me) you have foolishly
chosen a 5 by 5 grid. Digitised speech
gives you the name of the file selected,
and there is a facility for loading
pictures of your choice.
Jigsaw IS somewhat similar, the
principal difference being that instead
of sliding the pieces around the grid,
they can be pointed at, clicked on, and
moved to the desired location. Sounds
CHECK out
Move it and Slide it!
Ease of Use • • • • •
Very usertnendly. It's so selfHSiplanatory
there's hardly any need for a manual.
Features • • • • O
Us furi to be able to import your own
picture and build your own pu77le.
Documentation ••000
A flimsy pholocopiea sheet, fortunately
not needed as the program's 50 friendly.
Price Value • • • • •
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Overall rating • • •
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A super little pac**age which would be
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Jigsaw
Ease of Use • • • • •
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Features • • • • O
The facility to 'eonentaie the pieces to
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Documentation • • O O O
Very limited but once again unnecessary.
Price Value • • • • •
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Overall rating
This product would aLso have a place Ln
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aat month we loohed at th«
process used to create the
Mandelbrot set. and
constructed an Amiga
BASIC listing to produce the entire
Mandelbrot set. Thia month we'll be
Innkinti ^t altc^r»tlon« tf> thk
program which allow us to zoom
into sections of the set and
men gan&raXG
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on the
normal
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fractal. In case
you mislaid (or
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month's issue,
TTw program -
complete with
colour contour
generation -Is
provided again hore,
ac Listing 1,
ZOOMING IN
The Mandelbrot set is an
incomprehensibly complex object: a
single plot can never contain
enough detail to show all its
intricacies. So, the ability to '^oom'
into the set can tie very useful-
Let's assume that we warned
to look closer at the section shown
in Figure 1. Gy intelligent
guesswork, or by measuring the
diagram, il can be shown that the
srea 4n question lies in the region
where a ranges between 0.25 and
0.9 ana D mfiges bGiw^-en Q.b and
0.7&. This IS all *h(^ information we
need to inaenifv ims section, and
line. The relevant replacement for
the hne is shown below.
PSET (a-160D-240.2D0- J
tb-800-100J>
Running the
program now will
display the nght
section at the
relevant size, but
the pixels are
too spaced out.
This IS
because the
STEPS of the
FOR. ..NEXT
loops were
optimised
for the full
Rgure 1:
The small square
(arrowed] Is the area we
would like to examine more closely
gaps. The revised FOR,, .NEXT
initialisation lines are
shown below,
FOfU
&-0.25J
TO 0,5J
STEP 0,0^
00625
FOR b-O.B.J
TO 0.75J
3TBF 0.00125
Rgure 2 shows
the kind of output
that you can
expect from the
altered program.
Further
enlargeiTients can be created by
altering Lfsling 1 in a way similar to
that used to produce Figure 2. It is
these kind of eniargement
techniques that lie bebin<J all the
public domain Mandelbrot 'explorer
Note that when
experimenting with
I higher magnification
factors, the iteration
ceiling (in the WHILE
line) will have to be
ncreased from 32.
because, at high
magnincations.
more contour
lines become
visible. More
calculations
must therefore
Rgure 2:
Ma^lfficdtlon of the
original pattern reveals a self-similar
Mandelbrot set lurking within
be done to distinguish points on the
contours from points which actually
belong to the official" Mandelbrot
set (in other words, the black bit in
the middle). There is no sirr^ple
formula for calculatir^g the
'magnified fo over
100,000,000,000,
000,000,000
times its original
„
only three minor alterations need to
DC mode to Listing i in order to Uo ii.
Tht first 15 to mahe the program only
test points in the selected region,
rather than in the whole set. To do
thia the two FOR...NE>a loop
initiolisotion lines should be altered
10 rtjdc a& roiiows:
FOP fl=0.25 To D.5 STEP O.Ql
FOR boO.5 To 0.75 STEP 0,02
TtllE has the desired effect of only
showing the relevant area. The pixels
arc piOTioa in the same place as
beiore. rather than tilling up the
whole screen. The movement of the
pixels fs done by editing the
multiplication factors in the PSET
The harder you look at the fractals in the
Mandelbrot set, the more detail you'll see,
Conrad Bessant shoy^s hoyv to v^ield a
mathematical magnifying glass
Mandelbrot set. Because the height
and widrh of our section Is only one-
Sixteenth the size of the total
Mandelbrot the STEP sizes must be
corroapondingly rcducod to fiU in the
programs, where you use the mouse
to select the section to enlarge.
Such programs work out the step
sizes and ranges of a and b simpiy
from the position of the mouse.
LISTING 1 • LISTING 1 » LISTING MISTING 1
REM Oc>en a 1€ colour window
SCRFKN 1,640.200.4,3
WINDOW 2, "Colour Kandelbrot Set", (0, 0) - (617, 180) . IS, 1
FOR «>'2 TO 2 STEP .01
POP b— 3 TO 2 STBP ,02
RQI S*t initi&l vaIuab of varlabl«H
p-0
q-O
IlEU Degia Galculatioa loop
WHILE tP'P^Q'a^l} AND [iteration<32)
Dnew=t> *D '0*1+8
F-p»evr
q-gnew
i ter at ion= i t qea t ioat 1
WEND
COUm iteration MOD 16 'Set the colour
PSET(32O+a*100,l00-b''SO) 'Plot the point
NEXT b
NEXT a
maximum number of iterations for a
given part of the set, because the
contours are of varying widths. As a
role of thumb the iteration ceiling
has been well chosen jf tfie border of
the actual set is free of smooth Ifnes
and the set appears on the screen
as fast as possible,
LOOKS FAMIUAR
There is one other important point to
make about magmfymg parts of any
fractal, which is that the aspect ratio
(the ratio of height to width) should
always be preserved. This is the
reason why the sets plotted by
Usting 1 only take up the middle
section of the screen. Extending it in
order to fill the rest of the available
space would cause it to be artificially
elongated. Such tampenng with the
aspect ratio causes inaccurate plots
to be produced, making self-similarity
hard to distinguish.
The tiny Mandelbrot shape near
the centre of Figure 2 clearly
demonstrates self-similarity. The tiny
replicas of the Mandelbrot shape are
thought to be found even when the
set IS infinitely magnified. At a
lecture Professor Mandelbrot
exhibited a picture showing a section
yO AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 32 • FEBRUARY 1993
AO S
Of the set megnHM to over
100.000,000.000,000,000,000
times its original size, and the
onginal Mandelbrot image couTd still
be seen! It's not worth trying such a
large magnification on the Amiga - it
would take several years to produce,
and bosidoG, tho precision of Amiga
BASIC'S maths routines would mean
tnai itie resuiung imaee woufd De
severely disterted.
STfiANGE MUTATIONS
Some variations on the Mandelbrot
set can easily be generated by
altering Listing 1 without any
und&relandlng of how the changes
refate to the ManilelbroT process. For
ejiomple. try eliminating Ific pncw
and qnow vanoblo5 by replacir^ the
rour lines aner tfie WHiLE line with
the following (If you've jusl altered
the program for zooming make sure
you put it biKh lo normal tiefore
liying llMii\j:
qa2*p*q+b
Another 'quickie' can be perfom^ed
by Changing tho Mandoibrol square
Into 3 cifcle. by editmg the WHILE
line ta read as follows (this can be
used on Its own or to enhance the
last variation):
WHILK (p*p<4j and (q'q<d) J
and (iteraCion<33}
In general the results
or these
hjnd of trial
and error
alterations
lend to be
disappointing.
5d, It Is usually
more advisnhip
to rtfive B
reoaoriob^c idco
of what you fue
trying to achieve
before you start
tinkering around With
the program.
INTERNAL
EXAMINATION
Traditionally the inside of the
Mandelbrot set is always coloured
black, but it i^ pQ:>t>i[>le lo colour the
inside of the set with contours
Similar to those lound out&ide.
Although these imernal contours are
derived Trom the Mandelbrot
process, ihev riave little importance
to trie study ot the set. and are
simply included to add visual effect -
[hey can ix gutie stunning when
plotted in colour.
You can uce Ju^t :4t»oui any
meUiod yuu riKe to plot tne interna)
contours, but a popular method
involves the distance between the
centre of the Mandelbrot circle and
the position at which the test point
ended up after exiting the circle (see
last month for more details of the
Mandelbrot process and Mandelbrot
circle)- The best way to incorporate
this facility into Listing I is to
replace the line which sets the colour
to read as follows:
^.Jnciuded fo add
visual effect - they
can be c^ulte
stunning when
plotted in colour.
//
IP iteratioo<32 THEN J
'If outside set:...
COLOR iteration MOD 16 J
'select colour nonoaily
ELSE J
'Otherwise. . .
COLOR INT ( 5*ABS t LOJ
G(p*p»-q*q>)) MOD 16 J
'use internal method
HMD IF
QUASI-MANDELBROTS
Quasi Mandelbrot sets represent one
of the largest areas for Mandelbrot
expenmentation.
Normally p and q
arc both set to
zero Ijefore the
Mandelbrot
process gets
under way,
but by using
different
initial
values it's
passible
to create
a quasi-
Rgure 3;
QuasI'Mandelbrat
sets are often quicker to plot
than theJr 'normal' counterparts.
though Less immediately recognisable
Mandelbrot set- Different values can
be incorporated into the program by
altering the lines in Listing 1 which
set the initial values of p and q. so
that these variables are something
other than zero. For example, try
changing the relevant lines lo read
as follows:
p-0.6
The output from the resultrng
program is shown in Rgure 3. These
sets are usually quicker to plot than
the standard Mandelbrot set. There
are a vast number of different Quasi-
sets that can be created using this
method, due lo the many possible
combinations of p and q. However,
an important thing to remember
when expenmentmg in this way is
that both vanables should always be
in the range ot -2 to 2.
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER
THAN ONE
Another vanation on the set can be
achieved by altering the Mandelbrot
equations which, recalling last
month's articfe, are as follows:
pnew = p*p - q*q
qnew a 2*p*q * b
+ a
A two-headed Mandelbrot set can be
produced by replacing these
equations with the following pair
pnew - p"p"p - 3"p"q'q -t a
q^ow " 3*p*p*q - q*q*q * b
These two equations are actuatly
very closely related to the original
ones, although the relationship is
difficult to explain without
reference to
complex
numt>ers,
equations
for pnew
and qnew
can easily be
incorpo'ared
Into 3
Mandelbrot
program such as
The one given in
Listing 1, and wiir
produce output
simrfar lo that
shown in Figure 4, If
you've just diieied
the program to
produce quasi-Mandelbrot sets
remember lo restore the relevant
lines so that p and q are both zero
Initially, oi you will end up with
something very weird!
All the mutations discussed hero
can be ft manipulated and zoomed into
using the some method as for the
normal set. Although the more
compficated calculations slow the
program down, this is still an area
worthy of expenmentation. It's worth
attempting to convert the listing lo
GFA BASIC or C if you can't stand
waiting for Amtga BASIC .
A TOUR OF CONTOURS
So far we have restricted ourselves
to ptolling the Mandeltjrot set in the
standard two-dimensional way, with
onJy the dddilion of coloured
contours breaking the tradition of
Mandelbrot's original plots. However,
there are many other ways to
Observe the set. The first of these Is
to plot the contours in a more map-
like style, using thin monochrome
lines rather than wide bands of
colour. This produces an illustration
reminiscent of a slightly anaemic'
Mar>delbrot set
A set of this type can be created
by altering Listing 1 so that instead
of colouring points depending on the
ease with which they left the
Mandelbrot circle, lines are plotted
to show the boundanes between
these groups. By far the easiest way
to do this IS to plot the Mandelbrot
set in colour Tirst and then use a pair
of FOR.. .NEXT loops to scan the
completed image, applying Amiga
BASIC'S POINT function to pick out
each of the boundaries between the
coloured contours.
ANOTHER DIMENSION
Using colours alone tX is difficult to
ensure that each contour around the
Mandelbrot set is a unique colour.
So, it would be useful to have
another way of representing these
contours. A popular method for doing
thjs IS to draw an
so metric three-
dimensional
Mandelbrot,
Known as a
Mandelbrot
landscape,
where points
are elevated
from the
plane by
differing
amounts
depending
on The
ease
Rgure 4:
If the standard
Mandeibrot shape is beginning
to look a little familiar. Jt's easy
enough to add another head' to It
With which they left the circle.
Unfortunately a knowledge of 3D
graphics programming is required
before you can attempt a Mandelbrot
landscape program, and there isn't
room to explain 3D techniques here.
However, watch this space for more
details when we cover fractal
landscapes later in the senes.
So far we've seen how the
standard Mandelbrot set can be
manipulated- Following on from this,
next month we'lt be looking at the
Julia setn the ultimate variation on
the Mandelbrot set.
More details on the Mandelbrot
aet Bnd other fractals can t>e found
In Conrad Bessant's forthcoming
book. Chaos and Computers: Amiga
Edition (iSBf^: 1-85058-2831),
published by Sigma Press. Call
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AMIGA SHOPPER e ISSUE 12 • FEBRUARY 1993
81
AMOS
Stuffed wifh
Christmas
turkey and
generally the
^^orse for vs^ear,
Jason Holhorn
enters 1993
wifh a bang. If
you got a copy
of AMOS for
Christmas, then
join the ^in
crov/d' wif/i
AMOS Action!
ghf Christmas corner but
once a year and how glacf
I am that it's aJI over.
Having downed more
wine, turkey and Christmas pudding
than is generally regarded as safe,
the old stomach Js bulging and my
head atMl hasn't stopped spinning.
But despite all this over-indulgence
(perhaps better known as
'gluttony'), my Amiga hasn't been
Ignored. Even on Christmas day.
AMOS Pro was up and running. So,
let's put AMOS Action straight into
top gear (without breaking the
speed Limit, of course!) and move
smoothly into the New Yeaf.
1993 realty stiould prove to be a
wonderful year tor AMOS. With AMOS
Pro riding high in ^^^^^^^^
the popularity
stakes, more and
more Amiga
converts are sure 10
enter the foid. This
year we can also
look fon^vard to
some extremely
enciting new
releases for AMOS _
programmers. Now
that the Amiga 1200 and - for the
posers amongst you - the Amiga
4000 have delivered the new "AA"
chip set to the Amiga community, it's
only a matter of lime before a new
version of AMOS Pro arnves that
boasts full support for those
wondrous new screen modes. As
enclusively reported m last monih's
AMOS Action. AMOS programmer
Francois Lionet is also hard at work
on the new release.
n993 really should
prove to be a
wonderful year
hr AMOS"
February should also see the
release of the new AMOS Pro
CompHer. a very sexy piece of
software thai i'm personaiiy iooking
forward to. Having already coded
loads of programs that take
advantage of AMOS Pro's entfa
facilities, it'll be nice to be able to
run those programs without having to
load AMOS Pro every time. Oon't
hold your breath for the compiler
though - my guess is that it'll
probably take a little longer to arrive
than Europress is actually letting on.
Let's hope that I'm proved wrong.
SOUD ADVANCES
Although Europress won't spill the
Oeans. I'm quite sure thai we'll also
^^^^^^^^^ see a new version
of >^MOS 30 too. As
bemused AMOS Pro
programmers will
already know,
Voodoo's e;<cellent
3D extension
doesn't quite work
under AMOS Pro.
Europress it}eing
i^- the caring sharing
company it is) is
sure to do the decent thing and
upgrade AMOS 3D m double quick
time. It would ceftamly be a great
shame if this doesn't happen - \ still
think that AMOS 3D is one of the
most underrated Amiga packages
ever reieaseai
Dont be surpr+sed either If you
see AMOS eventually ending up in a
Commodore bundle. I've t)een saying
it for months now and I still think
that Commodore will see the light
We've cDvorod quite a few different
types of games in the AMOS Action
section ovef the last few months.
Having already diacussed shoot 'em
iip6, ma2o games and Dungeott
Master cFones, we move on this
month to that old falthfuL the
adv«nture gante. Adventure gamee
havQ heen very popolar for more
ye^r* Ihflri \ dare to meinii>n. thinks
mainly to pioneers such as Intocom
and iviuunetic scrolls. Several
adventure game construction kits
appeared on the 8-t>Jt machines a
couple of years back, but they failed
to materlahae on the Amiga despite
a quick foray Into tii« ST markets
Tii*^ iitMftsi thai Ainl^d users
have to programs such as Incentive's
Graphic Adventure Creator [GAC] and
QuLifSofts Professional Adventure
Writer {PAWi ^s Aegis'
Visionary, a language
designed specifically
for adventure game
programming.
Unfortunate iy it never
quite achieved what its
designers had aimed
for, mainly due lo the
rather long-winded
approach it took
towards programming.
But fear not: writing
adventure games with
AMOSis actually very
straightforward indeed. Wnai s more-
you can even include graphics, sound
Bftects and animations fif you're
lucky enough lo own AMOS Pro)
within your adventure gan>es - Vy
doing that w^h GAC
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You too can write adventure games
- this one was knocked up in a dayl
CLASSY ACT
The heart of every adventure game is
a routine called a parser". The
parser's Job is to interpret the
commands thai the player enters at
the Whai now?' prompt and then act
accordingly. Now, computers can't
understand English as we do, so it's
the parser's job to bring some form
of intelligence to the machine.
AUhough Its a far cry from true
artificial inteiligence. the parser gives
the machine the ability to act upon a
Jimited range of English sentences.
The parser works by assuming
that each and every sentence that
you enter will have a strict formal-
It's a hit like writing a programming
language - because every command
has Its own unique forniat that the
programmer is expected lo slick to.
The parser also imposes this
limitation. For example, if the parser
were to be passed a senience
starting with the word 'Attack', rt
knows thai it should also be passed
three other parameters - the name
of the object or person being
attacked, the word "with' and finally
the object lo be used for the attack.
Here s a valid example sentence:
What now? AHack elf with sword
04 AMIGA SHOPPER 9 ISSUE ^7 m FEBRUARY 1993
AMOS
and will snap up AMOS for an An^iga
bundle. Hordes of Amiga users have
been moaning at Commodore since
tho long overdue demise of
AiTiignRA^ilC {RIP), so Commodofe
would be well advised to provide new
users with a language that will allow
them to get the very most fiom their
new machine. And what betrer a
language than AMOS^ Mark my
words, it wiH happen.
Of course the most encitmg
asi>ect of 1993 has to be the twelve
Issues of AMOS Action that await you
over the coming months (one of
which you're reading now). If you
want to know what s hot, what's
while hot and what's not so hot ttry
saying that after a few beers!), then
stick wLth us.
TOTALLY RAD!
if Santa dropped a copy of AMOS Pro
in your stor:king. then no doubt you'll
t>e tnifsiy 'or as much AMOS
knowledge as your brain can absorb-
One of the best sources of 4M0S
related news, features, programming
tips oiiO programs (dpdri from AMOS
Acuon, of gourse) is Len Tucker's
Totally AMOS, the latest issue of
which IS now out and about. Issue 7
otters the same mu of AMOS source
code, luiofials and other bits and
pieces, all of which arc wntten by
some of the most knowledgeable
chaps and chapesses in the AMOS
world. The latest issue also has
source code for a complete maze
game, based around my article in
I39U6 20 ot Amiga Snopp&f. If youTe
SUM a litUe puzzled atK>ul the rather
techie subjects thai we covered in
that issuen then the source code in
TotaftyAMOS 7 will hopefully make
things a little clearer.
TotaltyAMOS is available from
the Tucker partners (alias Len and
Anne) who can be contacted at 1
Penmynydd Road, Penlann Swansea,
West Glamorgan SA5 7 EH.
1993 will be a big year for AMOS
and the Amiga - look out for a new
version of AtiAOS Pro that supports
the AA chip set
GOING UNDERGROUND
With the threatened closures of
many of Britain's coal mines hitting
the mining industry, four miners in
South Wales have opened up their
own colliery using the redundancy
pay awarded to them by British Coal.
In an attempt to keep costs down,
they ve abandoned modem
technology m favour of a pilpony
called Amos' that is used to bring
the coal to the surface. WelL all this
just goes to prove that AMOS can be
used for anything!
YOUR PAGE NEEDS YOU
So you lot out there tn Amiga-land
think you're pretty smart huh? Well,
now's your chance to prove It, Every
month I'll be
running a little
competition within
these pages that
will give you the
chance to prove
just what talented
programmers you
really are. There
are no prices
jnvolved. but at
least you'll have
the satisfaction of
seeing your code
and - even better
- your name
featured within
these pages. Just
Uimk: massive
prestige and
programming fame could be yoursi
The basic idea is to pick one of
the two programming projects
detailed below and then code an
AMOS procedure that will do the job
<rt must be a procedure so that
readers can easily incorporate it into
their own programs). Don't forget
that your procedures must be both
readable and as small as possible -
anything more than 30 lines of code
IS way too big! It's no good relying on
external files or banks either ^ the
code that you write must run
perfectly when typed in straight trom
the magazine. (However, I will allow
calls to bank or picture files on the
AMOS disks.)
Once you're totally happy with
the results, pop them on a disk to:
Jason Holborn. Amiga Shopper. 30
Monmouth Street. Bath BAl 2BW.
Here's this month's procedures for
you to choose from:
1. Star Held: 'he Star Reld
procedure must Ije very smooth, use
hardware sprites (so that bobs can
be pasted over the top of the star
field), should run on any screen {so
don't open up the screen from within
"massive prestige
and programming
fame could
be yoursi"
the procedure) and should have stars
scrolling by (from right to left) at
different speeds, giving a sort of
'parallax' effect,
2. Infinite Bobs: Quite a few readers
have noticed that AMOS can slow
considerably when more than a
couple of bobs are moved around the
screen, AMOS Demo programmers
have managed to beat this though,
so I'd like to see a procedure that
demonstrates how to move lots of
tiohs around the screen (at least
50!j smoothly and at high speed.
The parser would start by breaking
the sentence down into a series of
single words held within a
dtiTK^riblofidi an^v- ^^ ^<^ case, the
OJToy would contain four words;
attack, elf. with, sword. Once the
sentence had been tiroken down ;nto
these constituents, the parser would
men Check the first woru m the
sentence to see what the player is
tryine to do.
in an average adventure game,
there might be as many os fifty or
more commands, but you could
probably ^ct by with a fairly minimal
selection to start off with - go.
ejsaming. attach, gel- drop, use and
other such essentials.
Tho pareer would then check the
^rst word within the dimensional
an-av against the list of commands
supported by the parser. If it tailed to
find a command that matched the
first wura the user enieredn a
message reading something like 'You
What?' or tor the cultured among us
- 1 do not undersiand would be
displayed and the parser would
return to stage one with the usual
'What now?' prompt.
RECOGNISE THE EXERCISE
Howevern once it had recognised the
first word. The parser would then
jump to a toutine dedicated to
handling that particular command. \r\
the case of the example above^ you'd
have a procedure that handled the
■Attack' command. The next stage
would be to check the second word
in the dimensional array against a list
of characters, which would include all
the various people and monsters
depicted in the adventure.
This array would contain two sets
of information - the name of the
character and its location within the
game. If the parser managed to find
a character tnat matched the
description given by the user, it
would then check to see whether that
character was in the same location
as the player. If It wasn't, then the
parser would display a message that
informs the player that the character
they've just tried to attack isn't in the
current location.
Once the parser has managed to
recognise and accept the character
that's being attacked, it would then
skip to the fourth word to see what
the player is trying to attack the
character with {you can usually take
it for eranied that the third word is
"with"). The object would then be
compared agamst a list Of Objects
held by the player (the player's
inventory). If the player doesn't have
that object- then an error message
would be produced- If the player does
have that object, then fierce combat
would commence,
UNTO THE BREACH
The combat routine used by an
adventure game doesn't have lo be
particularly complicated. All you need
*or this procedure are three sets of
variables that determine the abilities
of the player and the character which
the player is trying to attack. These
abilities could be hit points (the
number of lives the player or
character has before they kick the
proverbial bucket); strength {how
much damage the player or character
will infict if they manage to hit their
opponent successfully); and an agility
rating (how quickly the player or
character can move out of the way of
incoming blows).
Combat would start by
calculating the probability of the
player or character managing to hit
their opponent. Let's presume- for
the sake of example, that the player
has a 3 In 10 chance of landing a
successful blow. You would then
start by generating a random number
between 1 and 10. If the result was
higher than 3, then the player's
attack was unsuccessful. But if it
was 3 or less, the combat routine
would then deduct the player's
strength rating from the number of hit
points that their foe has. If the
character being attacked has a hit
point rating of or less, then they
are dead. If they still have hit points
ihough, you could then perform the
same operation in reverse - the
character attacking the player.
Once both the player and the
character have attacked each other
once, combat would cease until the
player decided to attack the
character again, ^f you were feeling
really adventurous, you could ejttend
the combat routine so that it takes
some form of bravery rating into
consideration - if the character was a
\
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1993
83
AMOS
Jason Holborn, our resident
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BACK ON TRACK
I nm prfifidntly writing a shoot '«m
up gauK in AMQ5 Dut I'm having
some difficulty with the sound. I
want to be able to have sound
effects and music playing
■Imultaneouflly by splitting the four
channels - channels 1,2 and 3 for
music and channel 4 for the sound
effects. I have already written a
selection of tunes using ProTracker
2.2 using )iist the first three
Channels, Howevof, when I attempt
to load up the tune Into AMOS and
then play a sound sample as well,
all I get Is distortion ^nd cracKle&.
Here's my code:
TiacJi lioad "Wod-GroovySona", 6
Track Play 6
voice %0001
Wait 50 i Bcom
Gvon when lifting Amos Pro {which
Anyone feel up to the lob of writing a
routine that will allow AMOS to read
data from a sound sampler?
Is brlHIant), the same thing happens
I every time. Do I need a new Sound
Tfdcker program? Is AMOS actually
capable of playing both music and
sound eftects simultaneously? I
understand that there are also
several 8-channel Sound Trackers
available {OctaMED. for example),
WIIJ I be able to get the 8-channel
modules from these programs to
work with AMOS Pro?
David Shattu
Chlswick. London
There's a simple explanation for the
problem thai you re having. David,
AMOS Pro [and indeed AMOS version
1.34) provides two melhods of
incorporating sounij tracks into your
programs: the old and faithful MUSIC
and the new TRACK commandSn
both of which are designed to piay
'tracker modules. Unfortunately, the
standard MUSIC
command doesn't
support Sound Tracker
Module fomiat (the
industry standard for
modules), so
Europress enhanced
the sound system by
inc^uding direct support
for Sound Tracker (and
hence Prolracker)
modules via the
TRACK commands.
TJie TRACK commands
are veiy easy to use,
Dut they have one
major limiiaiion - they take over the
Amiga's sound hardware. You cannot
therefore pfay sound samples and a
module simultaneously it you decide
to play the module using the TRACK
PLAY command.
What you need to do is to
conven your modules to AMOS Music
Bank fomiat using the utility on your
AMOS program disk and then play it
using the MUSIC command. Vou will
then be able to play a music score
and sound samples simultaneousfy.
Unfortunately, the current
releases of both AMOS and AMOS
Pro do not support achannel Sound
Tracks and it is unlikely that they will
unless a third-party developer brings
out an extension. Playing 8-channel
modules is a big drain on processor
time, so ^t would be virtually
impossible to play a nxxlule of this
type and keep your game or demo
running at full speed. Just watch The
decrease in speed when OctaMED
Pro switches to Schannelsl
FREAKY, MAN
I want to write a Sound To Light'
routine in AMOS. I've written the
code to display the Mights', but I
can't get AMOS to read the sound
from a sampler connected via the
parallel port. I am ualng a Trllogie
Stemo Sampler Mk 2,
Hit?!
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Down
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^ [ -1 \ -\ I -1 f 3 [ -1 J "X
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location to >a.
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iDcailflr tBKt
Liudaiia
LaC3llDnt9XL
iDMtlun text...
LflCfttontex!
By aaalgntrtg a number to each map location, movement can be controlled
■Imply by Interrogating the sttrlbutoc associated wKh each location. The
location number could also be used as ar> index number for extracting the
location text from a random access file held on disk
toiai coward, vou could grve il The
option of running owoy from the
player. However. If it were a brave
warrior^ it would charge in whth axes
flailing. In this case, the mighty
combat would not cease until either
the piayer or tlie character were
dead, irrespective of whether the
player had chosen to engage in
battle or not.
ON LOCATION
Taking a lew steps backwanjs. lei's
take a look at how the adventure
game locations are stored and how
movement around those locations is
handled- The best way to store them
is to have a dimensional array that
acts as an index for a random
access file containing the descriptive
text for the locations. Each entry
within the dimensional array vinuuld
contain information on a single
location within the game. In turn,
each location would contain six
different attributes assocfated with
it, one for each direction of
movement (north, south, east, west,
up and down). Each of these
attributes would contain a number
representing the location that the
player will move to ^f a partfcular
direction is selected.
Say. for example, you were in
location 10 and you wanted to move
east- The program would start by
checking the attribute for the current
location that contained the number
of the location for an eastward
movement. If it contained anything
other than -1 (which would denote
that moverVient was not possible \x\
that direction), then this value would
become the new current location, the
text for that location would be pulled
in fnjm the random access file and
the whole process would start again.
SET PARSER TO STUN
Anyway, enough of the theory - let's
get stuck into some code. The first
routine we need hefore we can start
coding the parser is a routine that
analyses the text entered t>y the user
and then spiits it up into individual
words. Many programming languages
offer such a facility as standard, but
r>ot AMOS. We must therefore code
our own. The routine which you'll find
on the following page is called
SCAfiF and is actually one I wrote
years ago for just this task. It's very
heavily geared towards adventure
games, so it s not really designed as
a gen era I purpose routine Uke its
namesake vcanff) in the C language.
In fact, the oniy reason why I decided
to call It SCANF is because, having
spent years workjng on Unix
systems. C has become my second
programming language.
A^ AMIGA SHOPPEA • ISSUE 11 • FEBRUARY 1993
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Tve managed to op«n 1l» port
with tho Op«n Port l/'PAR-"
commi*nH which yuarkh OK.
However, when I read from the port
using a command such as Input
M,S, nothing hnpp«n&. How can I
read the u^luee sent down the
porallcr port by my aampkr?
• 5lmon £<i»ti>p
Pwnbrohoohlre, Wole^
UmT w ^B r J I nl to lor
It l« possible to run external
profLrams such as DPaint from within
jrour AMOS programs
I'm afraid ft's oot possible to read
data trom a sounfl samolcr via AMOS
unless you're prepared to get
involved in some pretty heavy
hardware based programming. I'm
prepared to Oe proved wrong mough
- so if any of you talented AMOS
programmers Out there faocy writing
a procedure that will do the job, then
id love to see it. Ill even send a
mystery pnze to the lucky
programmer that gets thetr code
printed in the magazine!
MENU MADNESS
I am writing a menu program In
compiled AMOS which 1 would llite
to Install Into the startup- sequence
Of my hard drtve, enabling me to
delect and run any of the programs
stored on my drive.
The program works
tine for other
compiled AMOS
programs hut when
I attempt to run
*!'» other programs
fi (OPaMf. for
example), the
program crashes. I
am using the
standard Run
"ProgramName''
^^m^ command to
* wM' execute the
Wt relevant programs-
''^^flL 1 would also like
B g to return back to
— the menu once the
Ml««tMl program has been quitted^
Can you please help?
Mr M Martin
Moreson. Swindon
The Run command isn't designed to
handle programs other than those
produced by AMOS. Technically it
shouldn't therefore handle compiled
AMOS programs, but my gueSS iS
that you're not oompiling them as
Workbench programs, but as
compiled AMOS code. The Run
command is used simply to 'chain'
together AMOS programs when
memory becomes a httle tight. What
you need is the Exec command
which IS available in version 1,34 of
AMOS and AMOS Pro. For example:
Exec "DHO:DPaint- ,"CON:0/0 J
/200/ 100 /Running DPaint.. ."
would run DPatnt (you'll have to alter
the pathname if DPaint has been
installed somewhere else).
To run your menu in the
background, use the AMOS TO
BACK and AMOS TO FRONT
commands to switch screens.
Running both the menu and the
'launched' program will eat up lots of
RAM. especially if your AMOS menu
program uses a lot of graphics.
QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE
1 am currently writing an adventure
game In AMOS with thousands of
locations. I was thinking of doing
this by painting the map with
Deluxe Paint using different colours
to represent the different map
features - or>e colour for the woods,
another for castles, and so on.
AMOS would then check the colour
of the pixel representing the
player's present rocatlon to
ascertain the setting they are
standing In. How do I read the
colour of a pixel on a hidden 64-
colour Extra HalfBrite screen?
Alsop do you know of a public
domain samples disk which Is not
dedicated to contemporary music?
I'm especially interested in lute and
lyre sounds.
Phillip L Henry
Earls Court, London
You're making rife very complicated
for yourseft. Phillip. Instead of using
up valuable Chip RAM by holding a
64-colour image in memory, t^y a 2-
dimensional array like in issue 20 of
AMOS Action. It woufd then Oe
considerably easier to extract the
infonnation you required and it would
also eat up considerably less RAM.
You could fill in the map data simply
by writing different values into the
array £1 for woods, and so on),
A classical samples disk, eh? I
must admit that I haven't seeo one
in the PD libraries, but they are
available commercially. However,
your best bet would be to sample the
instruments yourself from classical
music recordings. Try MicroDeal's
new Rave Sampler - which costs just
£19.95 and is availalsie direct from
Mjcrodeai on « 0726 68020.
NEXT MONTH • NEXT MONTH • NEXT MONTH
Next month we'll be continuing our look at adventure games by adding the
code that controls movement within the map. Beginners can also look
forward to the return of our ever popular AMOS For Begir}ners section. It's
all just one month away, AMOS fans - can you bear the wait?
Uhat Now? Go North
UORD 9 ^ GO
WORD 1 : NORTH
Hhat Now? Attack J»on with Mouse
MORD « - ATTACK
- JASON
T UlTH
UOPD ^ T. HOUSE
Uh^t Now? Not very eKoitin^ is it
UORD I = NOT
HOW I - VERY
UORD 2 - EXCITING
WORD 3 = IS
UORD 2 -
MORD 3 =
HORD '
Uhat Now?
we^t
UEST
Mhat Noi*? Drop ^word
UORD 9 ^ DROP
WM> i - SHOW
Uhat How? _
OK, 3o ira not very exciting, ijut the
SCANF procAdure L& a very important
part of an adventure game par««r
ontnuvdriwipooifli
All you do is define a
dimensional array that can hold the
words that the SCANF procedure
exlrocta. This must be defined at the
very stort of your program and then
dpfinf^n a^ a glotial array, rh^r^Tore
dtioniiig diiy [iroceauit? to dcctfss itie
words stored within it.
The procedure expects to be
passed the string containing the
user's Input- It then
searches through the
string for spaces and
characters. If a
Character is found,
then it appends It
onto the end of a
variable called
WORDS. However, If
a space is foundn the
routine assumes that
the word is complete
and therefore writes
It into the
dimensional array.
The WORDS variable
IS then cleared anO'lhe whole
process continues until every
character contained within the string
has been anaiysed.
AI1 the code contained with the
Do.. .Loop structure can be ignored.
I've included this loop simply to
provide a quick and easy way of
testing that the SCANF procedure is
successfutiy stripping down the string
and passing the words back
correctly. Type it m if you want, but
dont expect anything particularly
riveting - the exciting stuff will be
covered next month! f^
kiW^M
l;Mliil!ll
Dim CCMMS{5>
5Etfr$ -Uppers ( CKD$ }
Global CCHHSO
Ttat COtJNT-1 To Len(SENTS)
ro
If HldS(SEWr$, COUNT, !>-" "
Input "What ttOv7 '';CHDS
If woRrx:ouNT<5
_SCANT' [CUD^l
COMH$ IWORDCOUVT) ^HOKD$
COUNTBparam
Inc VIORDCOUNT
For A-0 To COtJNT
Sod If
Print "Hord ";A;" = J
End If
'■;CCMM5tG0UWTJ
If MldStSENTS,COlMT,l}<>" "
VmxL h
nORDS-VOmS+HidS(SEHTS. J
LoCf)
COUNT, 1)
End If
IE C0ONT=Len(SENTS) and J
' •»• SCANF - Stripe & J
W0RDCOUNT<5
string down
CC»IHS (WORDCOUNT) iWORD$
' '■• into single words
End If
Hext COUWr
Procodure _SCANF[CKDSI
If W0RDCOUWT=5 Then Doc J
vjohdS-""
WJRDCOUNT
WORDCOtJNTfcO
End Proc fWORDCOUNTJ
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AM I G A D O S
umours have been
circulating which suggest
there Is no difference
between Workbench 2.1
{as supplied with late model A600
machines) and Workbench 3,0, aa
supplied with the new A1200 and
A4000 system*. But this is not
true. Although Workbench 3.0 will
require the new ROMs to run. Its
advaiUdge^ £u beyunu support for
the new graphic a modes.
Several new commands have
Deen ddUeO. oixvits ennancea and
omers. iiKe Di^hDocior. removed.
TTiis latter one is an interesting
change; Commodore's official
developer dncumf^ntalion
sardonically notes:
"DiskDoctor: ^^^^^^^
removed ror
mal practice." II
goes on to sav the
program has bean
replaced Dy
DiskSsiv (an
original PD olsK
repair program
trom Daup Haynie) ^^^^^^^^
liuion early
distribution disks shipped wUh the
A1200 there is no sign of it. It is
possible this has been done wfifle
the program is be I rig updated
pending fiUng-syslem revisions, but It
might be an unfortunate overstght,
ASL OF A LOT BEHER
Whatever the case there is certainly
more to Workbench 3,0 than pretty
colours. The ASL file requester has
been updated considefably and now
displays an AppWindow. AppWindows
are, like Applcons, new features
introduced from Workbench 2 which
are now starting to percolate down lo
user level, {in Workbench 2. only
IconEd't fcfiturod on AppWindow.)
ADDWindows are controlled by
Wona)encn and work like ims: wnen
an icon is dropped' into an
"there is certainly
more to
Workbench 3.0
than pretty colours"
AppWindow, the application receives
a message from intuition containing
a description of that icon. When a
disk, drawer or project icon is
dropped into an ASL file requester,
the icon's path and file become the
current settings. As with all ihrngs
WIMP, this sort of thing is better
tried than explained in more detail.
HIDDEN EXTRAS
Commodore is well known for its
inability lo document the Workbench
and its associated systems - and
one ot those new hidden features
appears to be Mutiiview. This »s
basically a file viewer, similar to the
D'sp/ay found m previous reieases -
but there's more to
^^^^^^^^ it than a casual
gander might
suggest. Muffiview
could feasibly read
and display any
Amiga file trom any
application! The
secret is a set of
software-based
translators, called
datatypes, which
work along similar lines to the
existing printer drivers. The
command's synopsis looks like this:
Multlview [FILB~^<flleTUUDe>}
[CLIPBOARD] rCLIPUNIT*<nn>l
[ SCREEN] L PUBSCREENi- < B creen
name>] [REQUESTER] [BOORKAHK]
[ PO»TNAMEr^< font > ]
lFOMTSIZE=<mi> [BACFUBOPl
[WIHEXW]
At first the list of options looks
far more confusing than the older file
viewer. More - but this Is necessary
to harness the power of this terrific
piece of software. For example:
9 To open Muftiview and ask it to
provide a file requester:
i>Hultlview
FILE - The name of the file to open.
This argument is optional, and If not
suppf^ed. ME//f;tiew will provide a
Standard ftle requester.
CUPBOARD/S - This switch
overndes the FILE argument and
displays the contents of the Amiga's
system clir>hoard. CONCIIP does not
store a file ifi CLIPS:, but Muftiview
does - under the name O:
iJMultlvlew clipboard
OUPUNIT/K/N - TTic number of the
clipboard unit [clipboard, device
specific) to use - which must be a
numeric argument in the range 0-
255. Not usually required unless you
want lo override the default citpflle.
In the current release, the output
dipfile (wtien copy is used) is always
CUPS:0. For example:
l>|lultivlew clipboard J
cliipunit=5
SCREEN/S - If thfs switch is
supplied, Muftiview w'lW open on a
custom screen. The number of
coiours and screen type is controlled
by the tile being displayed.
PUBSCRFEN/K - Open MulUview on
a 'public' screen. Currently the only
public screen in the system is
Workbench. Normal custom screens
(supported by most programs) cannot
In the first part of a two-part
special Mark Smiddy reveals
some of the hidden extras added
to AmigaDOS 3. Plus: a handy
ne^/v v/ay of swapping directories
U.«.«tt. I. P
Sro^« ^ I
Hqu^i-
Krrou Keys I
-Jl't*^'' ?*J1'>'*P^'^ gXiftpig
Italtitfim it I qinpral purpose file vmpr thil tdQ thou UytJ . picturwl .
aflmatiafii icid ^o on,
It'£ » uvr^atilv i1 coutd fiitn pUv nam or tfi^pl'V MDriJuor^h da(ui*nU (If
\\lt IrirL^E^Iionb tr-e ivi[ Ubl«.) You c^n chfik uhuh tr^r^sUtLun!^ irr
cuppfnll^ jvjilable by loolivng in lh» tU^ses/Pitatypesi tfrjuer on vuu"*
StDrdq?3.e Hisli.
The general purpose file viewer doubles as a powerful hypertext system. The
two windows show MuUiview multi-tasking
be used. This argument is a keyword
and must be supplied along with any
argument.
l>liultlvlew HELP:DOSHelp J
PUBSCREEN=^ Ami gaDOS
REQUESTER/S - This switch may be
used in scripts to ask MuttiviewXo
communicate messages via
requesters rather than to the current
console (the Shell window):
Multlview REQUESTER
BOOKMARK/5 - Use a bookmafk
file rf one has been created:
l>Wiltlvi«w BOOnORR
FONTNAME/K - When viewing text,
this keyword can be used lo override
the defauit system font. Unlike the
Shell, Mu/fmewdoes support
Compugraphic (slowly) and
proportional bitrT>aoped fonts:
l>Hultlview HELP:DoflHelp J
Po^f^NAME =T inie s
TONTSIZE/K/N - Used in
conjunction with the FONTNAME
keyword, this allows you to select the
font size. If the requested si^e is not
available, the nearest value is used:
l>Hultlview FONTHAHE=TiineB J
FONTSIZE^IS
BUaCDROP/S - Open a text file on a
backdrop window. Tins option looks
very professional on custom screens.
The menu bar is hidden by default:
l>Multiview S:Startup- J
Bequence SCREEN BACKDROP
WINDOW/S- Somewhat
mysteriously, this seems to have no
function in this release.
AMIGA ^HOPPEP ttK^UE 99 AFFADtlAQY ^0Q^
A M I G A D O S
• To open Ihe file S:Slarluc>-
sequence using Muttiview.
l>HuItiview S: Startup- J
Mxluviev ia u gcmfidl [-uTpj^c file vh:vct am urn i
h'l ie wrtot^ it awU »n pIm muitc or ^ipU| VCori^-orxi
fecMHU 14 tk trdftiiflUOfts on awiWi.) you cm ciuLk Ma ^
MAkin^ A chAntfe: here we see a
EpniplDtuly for-gut type atjrlc used In
ptace or tie Dorlng system font
4 To view an IFF picture usin£ Ihe
norhOcnch screen;
l>MQltivl«« PlGtur«l.IFF
• Tu View (111 irf picture using ttw
internal IFF screenmode:
l>l>rultiview Picturel.IFF J
SCREEN
The remainder of the command
lino options are descnbed in the bOJi
on the previous page.
MULTIVIEW GRAPHICS
Multiview has a n^inimal set of
graphics features, although -
unusually - it can dither a picture
into the number of available colours.
Generally speaking, Mu/f/i'^eiv should
be caiied from AmigaDOS with the
screen parameter set so you can
show an IFF picture m all its glory.
For some modes (not HAM for
instance) it is possible to extract an
area of a picture and
copy it to the
clipboard. This is
accomplished by
selecting MARK from
the menu, drag
marking an area and
COPVingtO the
clipboard. The file is
transferred to the
CLIPS: assignment as
an IFF brush,
nverwriting any
orevious contents. It
IS inieresljng to note
here that, even if a
picture is clipped on a
four-colour workbench
screen it retains all its normal colour
and palette information.
MULTIVIEW HYPERTEXT?
Commodore has included an
Amigaguide translator with the core
system software Amigaguide is an
oOjeLl-orienied hyperview system
which can be used to create complex
help systems for just about anything.
Add to that the possibility this
could be linked to any Intuition object
and you have a system similar to
that introduced by Apple for the
Macintosh's System 7. That topic is
something for the future and for
developers to muse on. However, the
inclusion of a simple hypertext
engine is something which cannot
(and should not} be overtooked.
Amigaguide has a very small
command set - nothing like as
complex as BASIC or even AmigaDOS
AMIGAGUIDE'S CORE COMMANDS
UNK XXX - Emt>ed& a hyperlink
Dunon m the document.
•{...) - Defines a hyperlink button,
•DATABASE - The frrst line Of an
Amigaguide documern (more
correctly called a database) must
begin with this comrr>ar>d.
e^NDNODE - Terminates a 'node^
subroutine or hyperlink.
SHELP XXX - Optionally defines the
name of the node to be used as
the Amigaguide "help' node.
OINDCX XXX - Defines the name of
tbe ir>dex node. OpiionaL
•NODE XXX - Mart^s the start Of a
hypertinW subroutine.
•TITLE XXX - Sets the title of the
window or node display,
•WORDWRAP - Turns on
automatic word wrap,
9{b) - Bo*d on.
©(ub} - Bold off.
Q{\]- Italics on.
• (ul)" Italic off.
•fu} - Underline on.
©fuu} - Underline off.
so the core commands [see above)
can tje learried m a few moments.
Amigaguide hefp databases do not
require any special tools - and the
files CAn b« created wrth simple text
editors such as ED or MEMAC5.
One cautionary note here:
Amigaguide 15 capable of computing
tne nnfrwrapping for any font and
size, TTiis means paragraphs must
be terminated by a single camage
return, and not separated as a set of
lines, ED will break lines for you and
these hard-breaks' must be
removed before Amigaguide gets
hold of the text. As a ger^eral guide
tit you must use £0), enter me text
and join spirt lines wiUi the [ESGH
command before processing the text.
To get you started, I have
compiled a very simple Amigaguide
datatiase. Store this as
S:Mv_Example and view it us^ the
following commar^:
l>MuICiview S:K/_ExJunstlo J
backdrop screen
Rather Than provide a blow-t>y'
blow descnption of the example
datat>ase, ril look ai how a database
is constructed - this should help give
you a tielter understanding of how to
make your own.
The f'rst line of an Amigaguide
database must start wjth:
eilATABASE
TTiis lelts Multiview that the file
is an Amhgaguide database and not
just a normal ASCII text file. The
command does not take any
arguments (although Commodore's
example help file does contain a
version stnng).
The next line can be blank, a
command or the first 'node'. For
most databases, you will want to
switch on automatic paragraph
formatting with the WORDWRAP
command. The first node - wtiit^
must t>e called MAIN - is also used
as the contents screen when an
Amigaguide database is opened by
LISTING • LISTING • LISTING • LISTING
link KUNt
A COMPLETE AMIGAGUIDE
EXAMPLE
i?ddtabaee
^wordwrap
^node HKDi
^citle "Amiga Shopper exaitvle"
Kultiview is a general puxpoae file
viewer chat can show 9{"texc" linX
HVjrexCK ^cpiccurea" link »v_Plx),
animations and so on.
It's 00 versatile it ccnild even play
nuaic or display Vtordworth documents
(if the translations are available),
You can check which translations are
currently available by looking in the
?("DatatypeB" link MV Class) drawer on
your Workbench3-0 and Storage3.0
disks -
Now click A bucton in Che text abovs.
Buttons are "Hyperlinks" to other
3endnode
(?node MV.Text
©title Words
Multiview can be used to view text just
like MORE - but it'e far wore powerful
than that old thing,,,
* Tell me more about: ©{"Pictures" link
KV_Pix}
* I've seen enouoh. Take me ©{"Heme"
link MAIN)
@endnode
©node MV Pix
©title Pictures
You can view any ©{-IFF- link IFF)
picture with MUlCiview - by default the
picture will open on the current
display {uaually wor)cbencfa) but you can
define a cuetcoi ocre«n or use a public
screen it one is available.
* Tell me more about: ©("Text" link
KV_Text)
* I've seen enough. Take me ©{"Heme"
©node IFF
IFF: interchangeable File Format. A
very clever standard devised by
Cccmodore and Electronic Arts to
standardise translation of any file
btiwp c n applications. 14ostly used for
graphics and sound.
• I've seen enough. TaXe me ©{"Htane"
link MAIN)
©endnode
©node KV_Clase
MiJciviev relies on "translations" it
finds in tbe Datatypes drawer of your
Workbench disk. In the current release
there are definitions for Amigaguide,
ASCII text, IFF 8-bit sound samples.
IFF forEoatted text and IFF animations
with more to follcw. The translations
are very clever function libraries
which tell MjJtJview t4iat to expect.
* I've seen enough. Take me ©("Hciae"
link MAIN)
©endnode
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script, PCD is also rather sJow.
The basiQ ot this lip I5 q brace
of simple aliases (suitable for
AmJfiaiMS 'elea5e 1.3 upwards)
whicn remembef ibe curfeni
directory and move to it afterwards.
Using this technique is faster and
more versatile than PCD, although It
does require slightly more user
interaction. Add the foiiowrng
defnitior^s to your Shell-Startup,
then close and reopen the Shell:
ALIAS TD ASSIGN DIR_n = ""
ALIAS PD CD DIIl_l] i
The pair worit Itke this. TD fthh
dir^clonr) remembors the ounent
directory and PD returns to rt
afterwards. Lach alias takes a
Single argument which should be a
name or number you can then use
to return lo. For instance:
1>TD 1
J flots thin dlrsetory to "1"
1>TD SRC
; aota ths current J
airectory to "SRC"
; returns to directory "1"
l>pn SRC
; retuma to directory '^SRC"
There is no limit to the number
of directory pathG you can store,
and a directory can t)e anywhere -
even on e different diski
HOW THEY WORK
Time now for some explanation.
These aliases rely on a feature of
AmigaDOS s ASSIGN command that
will allow you to create a logical
directory (path) assignment to the
current directory. In other words:
ASSIGN KEYS: DCVS : KeymapB
Is the same as:
CD C^VS ^ Keymaps
ASSIGN KEYSi ""
The double quotes fill in the
reauired destination argument anfl
are read by the CO mm and- line
parser as the current directory. (As I
have aiready e-^piained thrs is a
feature of AmigaDOS directory
locking.) The TD alias makes use of
this, so:
1>TD SRC
translates into the following:
ASSItffl Din_SRC; "■■
This creates a logical path
assignment pointing to the current
directory, (Remember, the | and ]
are replaced by the first argument
you supply at the command line, J
This assignment is then added to
the current system list.
Now, when you enter:
1>PD SRC
this creates the following command:
CD TSXi,0BCt
arvd takes you neatly back to where
you were befote. Since these
assignments are handled in a list
they consume only a minuscule
amount of memory so you can have
as many as you wish. The following
alias (which directory) will show
where any particular assignment is:
ALIAS WD ASSIOl DIR_[j! J
EXISTS
You use It in much the same
way, lor example:
1>WD SRC J
SVSiDevac3/Source/Sleepy
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
Because of the width of tiM
columns »n Amiga Shopper, we
occasionally have to break a
command across two tines.
Where this has happened, we use
the J symbol to indicate that
you should not press the [Retum|
key at the end of the first line -
just continue typing the second.
''-lultiview. These few commands
enable us to create the basic
framework for any Amigaguide
document:
(^DATABASE
l?W3REWRAP
9tK>DE MAIN
9REH The table of
and initial lin)cs
content B J
go in here.
Nodes are.
Demaps. a irnie
complex at first
and they do
require a little
more than just a
cursory
introduction, h
an Amigaguide
database a node
is a page of teict
and optional
links. Nodes can
be stored
anywhere in the
database and accessed as required.
Clicking on a link (shown as a button
in the text) takes the user directly to
a named node. There is no
requirement to provide a return path
from any node since this is handled
by Amigaguide's RETRACE function.
Links are assen^bied like this:
ef'Button text- LIHK J
Hode_naine)
The link can be placed anywhere
in the text which is formatted
dynamically as the
page is displayed. ^^^^^^^^
Typically » the first
page of your
database will
contain a series ot
linhs toeochofthe
^dividual
"Chapters', Each
chapter may contain
a series of sub- ^^^^^^^^^
chapters Of
sections, each built from a separate
node. The mam node would then
look something like this;
@NODE MAIN
1. ©{-Chapter 1" LINK Chapter_l}
2. 9( -Chapter 1" LIMR Chapter_2}
3. 9( -Chapter 1- LINK Chapter_3)
4.9{''Gl0Baary" LIKK Gloesary)
ENEWODK
There is no need to make all the
links resolvable while you are
developing and testing the database,
although \{ IS an idea to provide
empty nodes or hooks.
By default, the title of the window
IS la Ken from me current node name.
You can override this at any point by
inserting the tol lowing command:
I^TITLE Window Title T«Xt
THE MISSING UNK?
The UNK command should also be
able lo load other files such as IFF
pictures and sound samples - but for
some reason the version I was using
(on an A1200 Workbench)
steadfastly refused to do anything.
However, this may have had
something to do with the early
version of Kicksiart 3.0 soft-kicked in
the machine. In any case, it seems It
Muttlview can display IFF files.
These are on a IG-colour
Workbench, but a custom screen
could Just as easily have been used
should be possible to insert
somethhng like this:
©("Show me a
Dlftsrcaift.iFF}
picture" LINK J
"fhese few
commands enable
us to create the
basic framework"
Ranged along the lop of the
Amigaguide database, you will find
buttons for an index and an internal
help system. By default, the help
^^^^^^^^ system is loaded
^^^^^^^^^ from the
AmIgaguEde.gulde
file located on the
LOCALE: disk (or
assignment if
youVe working
from hard disk).
This IS aJso a good
place to start If
^^^^^^^^^ you want lo see
another example
of Amigaguide at work. You can
provide your own node index by
Incorporating the following command
before the main node:
eiNDEX Iiidex_.»ode_.N«une
If this command is found, the
Index button is made available and
when clicked takes the user directly
to the internal index node. Similarly,
by incorporaljng the line:
9HELP Help_»ode Name
you can provide your own internal
help and override the default setup,
Next month I'JI be examining the
Workbench 3-0 Startup- sequence
and two extra commands which
provide extra functionality and user-
friendliness to scnpts, QJ
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In many households, the most
dreaded bill of all is the
electricity account. It conies
ovory three month« without
fall, nnfl unless ynu p^y by dlroct
dcbtt. It can come as a nasty
ciiroricp We :il1 need electricity for
llgl^tirYg. tolovi&ions and computers.
but how much do wo oon»uine7 The
§gre^d«rit?et
presented here will
CAleuUte av^rA^e
dany usage and
OAtropolatc thiit Jnto
a projection of the
quarterly bill. A few
»Imple mod if] cat 1 9113
will do the same thing
for your gas bill and.
in cither case, will at
least show you some
•ODthIng graphic*.
The theory benmd
this sheet is simpie
statistical projection.
In any househoid,
electricity usage
fluctuates on aciaiiy
basis. Out The weekly average
remains fairly constant. Over a
complete quarter, the da>ly
fluctuations are reduced considerably
and. therefore, it is possidie lo
project the quarterly bill from just a
fufi weeks" readings. In a lest
environment the accuracy fc^r
readings taken at four days ancJ 45
diys was bette^r than 97 per cent.
(Although it still doesn't make the bill
any easier to stomach,)
That doesn't mean to say the
sheet will be that accurate m every
house: if you nip oul and buy a
tumble dryer half-way through the
quarter^ expect tne projection arM)
fina] brti to rockets A1 least two
weeks' readings should be enougfi to
ensure at least QO p<?r cent
HCLurdcy. in any cvtrtii, dt li^e end of
the quortcr, this sheet will tell you
what the bill is going to be. By
compiling a database of previous
readings you will be able to compare
usage over a year or many years.
Uaing the oomplcted shcul is
simplicity itsetf. althougb it does
require a small amount of user
interaction, in Uiat il'a up to you to
enter the current meter reading
accurately. The new meters are fairly
simple to foiiow. the old style Is
more trichy, If you have never rood
such a motor bpfore, con&uit the
oanei for more information,
ENTERING THE SHEET
Spread streets have lo be
programmed — there is no getting
away from that, r^o mailer what
deaJers might teM you. Listing a
apreadsheeit program is something
we have not tned before. The
probjom is one Qf logistics; how is it
possibie to list a two dimensional
matrix in a linear fashion?
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The Energy Spreadsheet's electrk
version under development. This
shot, taken from ProCatc. shows an
anomaly In Juty 1991 caused by a
eoimcil-estJmated reading
The solution we have arrived at
is to list all the cells in a more
conventional form. Each cell is listed
as the cell reference followed by the
cell contents. For instance;
B6: =C14"Cie
wtiich means enter =C14'C18 at
ceH reference B6, In some cases
special formatting is required which
has been noted in angle brackelSn
like tOis: '■<format notes>". This text
is not entered, but is used in setting
up the sheet As the program stands.
H IS suiiaoie for PfOfesstonat Calc —
a iitlle work is required to convert it
to others such as The Advantage.
Analyse. The Works and Maxipian.
Apart from the dale functions, this
should not require too much effort.
CEa DIVISION
What now follows is an overview of
how the sheet functions..,
COLUMN A
The majonty of this column is made
up of plain test. The dates A28,.,A31
could conceivably be real dales, but
this makes no difference in practice,
A32: The conversion factor for the
different metenng systems. As a rule
of thumb, use 100,000 for electric
meters and 10.000 tor gas meters.
(To work out what you need, work out
the meter's maximum reading, say
9999, add 1 and enter that.)
A33: The price-perunit of the
resource. At the lime of writing, this
Elecfricify bills come as a nasty
shock? Gas bills make you feel
like sticking your head in the
oven? Mark Smiddy shows how
o spreadsheet can predict your
bills we// in advance
Several calculations in this sheet
use modulo or 'clock' arithmetic,
tn maths, a modulo is defined as
the remainder left after division -
so why should we be using It here?
The key is that the most common
metering system used tor gas and
electricity Is a clock. In other
words. It has a limited count
twforo it retums to zero. The same
fs true of any computer function -
though in muthomalical science
the largest number possible Is
Infinity. The problem we are faced
with here Is the largest number
that can be displayed on the dial is
much less than that which a
computer can handle: 99.999
rather than billions.
Consider the followmg. The dial
reads 99720 and the projected
usage we need to add is 300 units.
This would lead to the following;
99720+300
= 100020
This is quite correct, but il is out of
the meter" s range.
In order to fiJi this we modulo
the result with the meter's
maximum displayed value plus 1. In
other words:
100020/ (99999+1}
= 1 remainder 20
or, by using modules to return just
the remainder:
100020 MOD (99999+1)
= 20
Which iSn of course what the meter
would have read. The same
calculation can be applied to cases
where the calculation could yield a
n^ative result. Ordinarily, it would
be more appropriate to use ASS
(absolute value) but this would not
work here. Take a case where the
meter has "clocked' during a
quarter. This could resUt In a
negative value of units used, which
would give a result like this:
20-99720
="99700
The absolute value of this is
99700: the sort of fuel bill that
couiO bankrupt a small town. To
avoid this, we can add the
maximum displayed value and
calculate the modulus of the result.
((20-99720)+1000001
MOO 100000
=300
which li correct. This does not
affect normal values, for instance:
98720-97720
=1000
is the same as;
((96720-97720)4-100000)
MOO 100000
=1000
E^=
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for gas. To arrive at this; if the pr^ce
per unit i5 7.95p, flivloe tnat Dy 100
&Tia Ci^Xor the result or simply enter
lHe foiHii^iiiB =U 95/100),
COLUMN B
e4.„B8: HGaa the values from tne
usage history table and calculate the
billing co3l baaed on the current
charges. Some of these will not tally
wiin orevious dins flue to thG
fiuUuuiiu]^ i\\ Liiu ^u^i uf iiie
resource. However, for ohort based
comparison it is mord important to
ahow the absolute variations m
ueage. You can add anomer set of
formulae lo the nghl of Ihcsc
(C4...C7) to show this loo.
eiX..,Sl5: These values are ^e
rpartings from the previous year. The
only important value is held m B15:
this must be present for the sheet lo
work correctly- If the others are
miseir\g. this wiii cause erroneous
values in the comparative results,
but these are not used m the
projcctea calculation,
B16: Calculates the projected meter
reafung. Sir^ce the normal meters
only count up to 99,999 ttiis value is
a modulo of the result.
B23-.-B27! The remainfler of this
column IS text values for dates. The
examples provided \^ere are correct
for the sheet as shown and will
remain so until January 1993.
COLUMN C
C4...C8: Are the standing charge for
a Quaner. Check this from your own
billing information.
C11..X16: Compute the units used
for each oeriod. The oerlod furthest
booK in lime |C11] is always ^ero
•IOC9 this ie the starting point. The
remainder of these cells are
calculated from the difference
between the current value and the
last one. Modulo arithmetic removes
the negative values and ensures the
value is within range.
C18; Cutrent price-per unit In pence.
C19: Since C20 comdins me
average usage per day (In arbitrary
units), this multiplies that value by
7*13, in other words, 7 days times
13 weeks, or. the number of days in
a quarter. (In truth, this calculation is
not absolufeiy accurate down to the
imt few pence, but it is close
enough.) You can use the constant
91 in place of thia if you wish.
C20: Calculates the average daily
use by taking:
(last reading - current reading)
/days fttapsed
Modulo arithmetic takes care of
♦nstances when the meter reading is
'clocked'. This is explained in more
detail in a separate panel,
C21: Extracts the current reading
from the graph table and places it
This spreadsheet can be used to
produce some rather attractive
graphics - demonstrating how
usage changes throughout the year
neatly in a table of values. This also
makes it easily accessible for
programming purposes.
C22: Your 'current' reading is
entered here. This cell should be
highlighted m a different colour to
show a user input
C23: Calculates trie days elapsed
between the date of the last
chargeable reading and the current
one. E21 and E22 contarn date index
values. This calculation is done
separately to allow easier conversion
to other sheets.
C26-X29: Calculate the average
daily usage of electricity. This value
IS useful if you are running on a tight
budget since it can tell you how
much to put away each day, Multiply
the value by 7 and it will give you a
week, 30.4 a month, and so on,
COLUMN D
D4...D8: These are only apphcable to
commercial properties at present;
domestic users do not pay VAT on
electricity, Even so, commercial
users only pay VAT if they use more
than 33KWhrs on a daily average.
Domestic users should enter 0.
D26...D29: Calculate the average
daily usage in units. You can replace
the calculation 7"13 with the
constant 91 if you prefer or enter the
formula in a different cell.
COLUMN E
E4...E8: Calculate and display tbe
VAT component (if any).
C21...E22: The date of your last and
current reading. In fact, the only
sheet where this can be entered
directly {and it must be done in this
format) is Professional Cafe. In all
other sheets the date index must be
, calculated separately.
COLUMN F
F4.,.F8t Compute the totals and
projected total.
SUDDEN CONVERSION
It might come as a shock, but not all
soread^iheet'; are the same. Even
Where functions may appear similar,
they mi^t not do exactly the same
job. Thia is particularly true of dale
functions. The Works, Anolyse,
M^xsptan and P/an/ZTcan all
calculate a date index: but the date
must be entered as three separate
function arguments. Professional
Ca/cand Advantage can take the
date as a string or a function. Just to
aggravate matters though, the
functions do not work the same way
aroundl Please note also that The
Works and Ar^afyse precede their
functions wtlh '@' and not ' = '.
To save complicating matters
still further, the method I have
adopted is common to all
spreadsheets teven ProCalc).
Advanteige users may wish to take
the simpler path using the
DATEVALUE(STR) function. K you
are using A<ivo/MagC (or ProCalc) the
following should be entered in cells
E21 and 22:
E21: =dftte{B38,B37,B39)<date>
E22: =datetC38,C37,C39)<date>
Worhs or Analyse owners should use:
B21; 9date(B39,B3e,537)<dat«>
E22: <3date(C39,C3S,C37)<dato>
Or. if you are usmg Maxipfary (V2-0
upwards] or Plan/iT 3. enter this:
E21: Mdate(B39,B3B,B37)«late>
E22: =date(C39,C38,C37)<daC©>
The additional range A37...C39
descrrOed in the main program will
also be required. To reiterate, if you
are lucky enough lo own Professior^at
Catc. none of this is necessary. You
can enter the date into the cell
directly in the fonnat: MMDD-YY and
it will be converted automattcally.
rr's A GAS
This spreadsheet can easily double
up to make projections of gas units-
Two things should be borne in mind
'VE COME TO READ YOUR METER
--. ^ I
ThoTD are severai
varieties of electricity
meter in use. The most
common types are the
dial and digltai varieties.
Both give a six-figure
reading of the units used, but It Is
Important to note that the last
figure - 'tenths, usually shown In
red - is not used- So, taking a
reading from the digital type (as
shown in Figure 1) is a simple
matter of noting down the first
Ave digits: 57610.
The Older, dial type is more
diffitult to fathom. Not only do you
have to compile a reading from five
dials, but some of the diats rotate
ant l-c<ock wise! Consider Rgure 2
which represents the same
reading. The dials are read
clockwise from left to right. Look at
576 104
Figure 1: A tflgttal electric ttietor
the digits on the 10,000s dial>
Reading this clockwise it goes 9, 6.
7. and so on. So this dial must be
read anti-clockwise- Rndtfie
position of the indicator and read
the next lowest value: 5. Move on
to the 1000s and the opposite is
true. Here's a summary:
• Start at the dial on tlw extreme
left of the meter.
• Determine if the clock runs
clockwise or anti-clockwise.
• If the indicator Is between two
digits, read the lowest one.
10.000s
[TD
Rgure 2: The many faces of a conventional dial-based electric meter
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 2^ • FEBRUARY 1993 AT
BUSINESS
here: the price of gas and the
numt)er of Oigits on a gas meter.
Firstn electric melefS measure up to
99.QQQ 4KW hours) Jind gas meters
up to y,tfgg(cuDICfpm),
More important^ the price of gas
ic, at the timp of writing, 1 .^66
pence per kuowatt hour (your local
boarfl wHl adviso you). There ts
somcthine clac to consliJef here, the
gQ» meter measures usago in cuOic
feet - so this ma^t he converted loo.
The converaion rornikJld ls>
KWh=crt'2.83'Cal/3.6
where CH is the usage in cubic feel,
gnd Cal is the calonfic value of
aupplicJ goa in Mug{jJQu]c;3 per cubic
metre. This is a veriabio value which
changes from quaner to Quarter, but
D good ovcrago i3 39, Chock with the
local board for an accurate figure.
Therefore, to convert this sheet
to gas you ncoO to change the cells
gt A.32 and A33. (Vou will also need
(o do thj5 when the price rises.) The
conversion from cubic feet to KWh
shouia be aone as a function;
R35: 35
B34! - constant for J
converaion Cubic Ft -> KWhra
B35r "^ Averajja calorific J
value ^text>
Make the conversion to KWhrs at
B4...B8. C26...29 and D16...29:
B4
B5
B6
B7
Be
C26
ca?
C2S
CZ3
=C12*Cie*A34 <curroncy>
5C13*C18*A34 ^currency>
=C14*C18*A34 <currency>
=Cl5*Cia*A3d <currancy>
=C16*C18*A34 <currency>
=D26'C1B <currency>
-D2 7 •Cl 8 < currency >
=D2e*Cl8 <currency>
=D£9"Cia <cxirrency>
D2fi: »C13*A34/(7»13)
D27: =C14*A34/(7'13)
D3e= =C15*A34/{7*13J
D29j =C16*A34/{7*13)
VAT'S ALL FOLKS
VAT on gas is pa^d by commerciai
usersr but not by domestic ones, The
Standing charge is aiao caicuiated
differently at 10.29 pence per day in
the North [checK your own area).
Therefore you need to change these:
B4
55
B6
B7
BB
=1029*7*13
=I029'7*13
=1029*7*13
=1029*7*13
= 1029*C23 <estljnateB J
tlte current standing charge>
C4,..C8: If you are a domestic user,
enter In these columns, otherwise
enter the standard VAT rate; 17,5%
at the time of wnting.
ENERGY SAVING TIPS
It's important to realise this
spreadsheet has a lot of fon/^ard
references - so it cannot be
recalcuiated correctly in a singJe
pass. When you enter your reading
data select recalc at least five times
to aiiow the formulae to sort
themselves out. Each time the
recalc function is entered, the
projected cost will change: when it
settles down to a cor^stant vatue the
correct amount has tieen arrived at.
(With advanced spreadsheets like
Advantage or Professionai Caic. you
can set the number of iterations to
five from the preferences requester.)
Once entered this spreadsheet is
very simple to use. Vou just enter the
appropriate data at a few points and
iet it do the rest. Not everyone keeps
their electricity bills, but your local
Electricity Board should be able to
tell you your last four readings over
the telephone. That should be quite
sufficient to get you started.
However, there is no reason why the
sheet cannot be used to Keep track
of electrrc bills for years to come.
One other thing must be kept *n mind
here: the price of fuel will change
and the sheet can only make an
accurate prediction if that is up to
date. Other than that, extending the
sheet IS simple:
1. Insert blank rows above the
projections at A8 and A16.
2. Copy the row at A 7 and paste
relative into A8, Copy the row data
from A16 and paste relative to A17.
3. Correct the reference to ttw iwlt-
pnce constant tn B8. (Vou can check
what this is by looking at the formula
in B7.)
4. Update the data references for
the units used, dates and such like,
then recalculate.
In conclusion, I should point out that
this spreadsheet was put together to
make Its workings as Clear as
possible - with the aim of making it
portable between different programs.
So. It could be streamlined to make
it faster. Vou might like to try this as
an exercise. If you do. try and make
use of the special features your
spreadsheet offers; Maxiplancan
use named ranges; The Works can
mix absolute and relative cell
references in the same formula:
A(Jvantage can take dates as strings
and so on. Whichever way you do it,
remember a spreadsheet is anything
but a closed application. QJ
Column A
Al: Fill in Ch* ^ATtB BbOHD
in biu«i
A4i Jan 91
A5i Apr 91
h6'. Jul 91
A^i Oct 93
Afll Jan 92
All7 Oct 91
A12: Jan 91
Al3r Apr 91
Aldi Jul 91
Al?^ OCL 91
Alfi- Jan 92
Aia: Pounds per Unit
A19: Frojflctw) ufiage
A30: nally uiag*
A21; Last Reading
A22; Current reading
A23: Elapsed
A24: starting
A25= Jan-01-92
A26: Apr-03-91
A27: jul-02-91
A2e: Oct-02-91
ji3ai looooo <>«■ tvNO
A33i 0.0795 <»* taiit>
A37: Date #
AJS: Honcti It
A39: Year #
Coluinn B
Mt =C13*C1B <currancy>
BS: »Cl3*Cie <curreDcy>
B7: iKZlS'Cia 'curr«icv>
BS: aCl^'ClS 'Currvncy>
Bit: 63297 <bluex tftXea 13 J
moat be agQ>
B12: 65054 <blue; taken 9 J
nonthD agQ>
B13: e£917 <bluej tayen 6 J
rnontna aao>
EU: fi7019 <bluoj taken 3 J
months ago
B15: &93B4 <blus; last reAi?lng>
Bl6i *E40D(Cl9*Bl5.99999t
D33; FlnLsbing
B34r Apr-01-92 <bluej txt J
date of BI2>
&35: Jul-01-91 <blue; Cxt J
date of B13>
B26: Oct-Dl-91 <blU«T tKC J
date of B14>
S37; Jan-01-92 <blue> tjct J
dflts of filB>
B34: Last
B3Te <Oay nunibaz of last J
reading: DD>
B3e: <Honth number oE last -I
B39t 'Year number of last J
reading : YY>
Column C
C3 : Standing
C4: 11.04 4currency>
05: 11.04 <currency>
C6 : 11 . 04 (Currency*
C7l 11.04 <currency>
CH T 11.04 crurr«ncy>
Cll:
C12i -M0D1B13-B11*A32.A33}
C13: ■MOO{B13-B12*A32.A33)
C14T -M00<B14-B13*A32,A32)
CIS: -H0D(B15-B14*A32,A32}
Clfi: -MODfB16-SlS*A33,A32)
ClBi vAiS <currency; see cext>
C19: -C30*n*13)
C30; -(HOO(C22'C21*A32,A33n/C23
C21: -B15
C23: 70116 <blu«>
C23: aE2Z-EZl
CS5: Average daily uae
G2fij ■D24*cie tcurrency>
e27j ■D27*Cie <currency>
C28: ■D2e*Cl8 <currency>
C29! -D29*C18 <curreacy>
C34: Cucrent {dates)
B37 1 <Vay nunbar o£ currvnt -I
reading : 0D>
B3e: <HoDtb number of current J
reading: HM>
B39i <Year number of current J
reading i TVr
Column
D3: VAT Rate
H: ^percent; unluiownilj ^
ccncercial only[>
D5: IF (D36>33, .175,0i <per J
cent; see textl>
D6i IF (D27»33, .175,0) <per J
cent; see text!>
D7: IF iD2a>33,.17S.0> <per J
ctntj see textl>
D8: IP {D29>33, .175,0} cper J
cent; see text I >
Dili l«aat -Current
D12: Last -Current
D13: Last -Current
D14: Last -Current
DlS: Last -Current
D16: Last-Current (projected)
D19i In Quarter
D20I unite
Daii units on
D22i Unite od
D23: Days
D3«T •<ri3/(7*13)
tfTTi ■ClS/a*!^)
D2e; >C14/(7*13>
D29t -Cl5/a*13)
column B
B3! VAT
K4i *(B4^4)*E>4 <currencyi J
••« t«xt>
B5i ■(B5+C5)*D5 <currencyi J
see text>
E6i BiBStCfiT'Dti <curreDcyi J
see text>
B7i -(B7.C7)*r)7 <currency: J
se« te)tt>
a8: -tB8*C8)*De ^currency: ^
sea text>
BZl: Oct-tO-92 <diitfl of laet J
reading: see text*
E22: NOv-27-92 <date of J
current reading; see taxt>
126; unite
B37i Unite
B29: tinita
B39] Dnits
Column f
P3i Total
F4: nB4*C4*B4
F5: mBStC5»E5
7€i >B6*C6-i-B6
ri: =B7*C7.E7
FS: =BBtCB*EB
Column Q
G3: Projected
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en doouunt iti be obic it} \v& in to the other computer
Gophers on the Internet are not to be confused with the
desert-living rodents of the same name. You can tell thorn
apart t>ecause the Internet variety has more menus
they need to be easily and quickly
Identifiable. To make thfngs even
quicker each site also has an 'IP
Address' which is nun^encal in fomi.
These take the fomi of 32Dit
numbers shown as a set of four
numbers separated by full stops.
For example, a site's IP Address
might be 125.25.250.521. The
numbers represent exactly the same
stnjctures as already explained, just
in numencal fonn. So the 125 of our
example would equate to "wavey" in
the full address.
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FTP (s the internet's RIe Transfer
Protocol, and is one of the most
popular uses for Internet. Using FTP
w
hat is the Internet?
It's something
whJch most people
find very daunting
and confusing, dnd that includes
many evperlenced comms users-
Hopefully, after reading this, you
will have a much better
undttrfttandlng. To put It simpJy, the
Internet Is a network of computer
neiworkb that \s linked around me
whole world.
Tlie current estimate is that
there are around 800,000 sites
connected to the Internet. What this
mesna to you is that IT you can
access the Intemeln you can also log
on to any of these computer sites
thai will let you, Imagme it.
thousands upon thousands of on-line
databases H games, files, chat
systems - the list is endless.
Until recently a hobbyist would
have Ifttie chance of being able to
use the Internet, simply because of
the cost of getting access lo it.
Unless you were a student at
university, or worked at a company
Most people have great difficulty
in finding their way around the
Internet, or more precisely in finding
the right address to use. This is
largely because there are many
different types of address, so many
that even I find them confusing. For
fnslance, a typical Internet address
m»ght look something like this:
wavey^daveyxo-Uk. I'll now break
The Internet offers a who/e newr
y^orld of information for you to
tap in to, Comms expert Dave
Winder shoves how you can net
yourself a bargain
The Compulink Information eXchange has a joining
fee of £25-00 which includes a compfehenslve
manual- Connection rates are £2-40 per hour off
peak and £3.60 per hour peak, subject to a monthly
minimum charge of £6.25. All the&e prices are
exclusive of VAT-
For more Information you should contact CIX.
Suite 2, The Sanctuary, Oakhill Grove, Surblton,
Surrey KT6 6DU ^ 081 390 8446,
that had a site connected, it was
unlikely you wnuld haue the
resources necessary to set up a
connection of your own.
But all that has now changed,
and mere mortals Irke ourselves can
pin in the fun for just a few pounds
a month. Two commercial services
are now offering internet access: C1X
{the Compulink Information
exchange) and DIS (Demon Internet
Servfce), You'll find more infonnalion
on these in the boxes on this page.
First though, let's take a look at
what the internet offers.
this address down Into all (ts
component parts and explain what
each of them means.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Consider your address in Uie 'real
world' . it consists of your name,
followed by the street and town
where you live, and rmaliy a
postcode. The Internet is very
similar. In the example I have given,
the name before the '&" character
is my name, and everything after it is
the location. So, for the purposes of
our example, I am "wavey " and I can
be found on a computer called
-davey". The "co.uk' part of the
address helps pinpoint my location
more precisely, and it is this section
that can t>e confusing, although it
really shouldn't be. All it is lellmg us
iG th9 sort of organisation concerned
and which country the site is in. In
our example, "co" refers to a
commercial concern Had it said
"edu\ that would have been a
univcfsity or the l^ke; 'gov' refers to
a govemment site, and so on. "uk'
is pretty obvious really, <snt d?
This apparently complicated
structure is rcQuired because there
are ^" n^anv sites o" internet that
you can transfer files from
computers alt over the world onto
your machine! Of course- you have to
have access to a computer site that
wilt let you do this. Luckily there are
lots of such sites which allow what is
known as Anonymous FTP.
Anonymous FTP basically lets
you get these files without the need
to have an account with the site
where the files are stored. Some of
these sites are universities- while
others include the people who run
the Intemet- A regularly-updated list
of all FTP sites is available, and this
IS very useful in finding the best
place to go for your files Thp Amrp^
Demon Intemet Services has a joining fee of £12-50
and a monthly charge of £10.00, Both charges are
exclusive of VAT.
There are no other usage charges, apart from
your telephone blll-
For more information you should contact Demon
Intemet Services, 42 Hondo n Lane. Flnchley, London
N3 ITT TT 081 349 0063.
I A4 AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1 993
C O M M S
is particularly well served in this
area, with a number of sites carrying
every sort of public domain program
you could possibly want. Because of
tfie sheer size of the Internet it is
likely that you will always be abie to
find the file you want, somewhere!
To g«t access to these flies you
need to know the address of a site
thai allows Anonymous FTP In Ihe
example shown at the top of the
facing page. I am actually FTP'mg
from a stie called "syrinjt.uma.eau"
vriiigti holds Infonnation on the rocH
bflnda Ruih and Pinh Royd (which
happens to be of interest to an old
hippy like tne). As you can ^ee. I
have &ub(;essruiiy Logged on as a
gucal. and have ihen a5hed lo see
site using the menu system- In the
e;<amole shown {on the left) I am
connected to a Gopher system and
have found tt^e lyrics to an album
that I was interested in.
OH NO - ANOTHER NET
tf you want to find out what is
happening, in Just about any sphere
of life, anywfiere in the world, then
you should check out Usenet- Usenet
is a set of networks thai exchange
messages or articles. These come
under venous categoneSn and are
sorted into newsgroups. A newsgroup
may be concerned with our beloved
Amiga, it may be for talking about
worid poLiUcSh or tX may just be for
fre&flowmg cnat. Tne main problem
concept of a text adventure, and are
probably thinking "big dear, as this
humble form of entertainment has
long Since been overtaken by
graphical games. However, you would
be wrong to dismiss MUDs without
trying them. I! may be a lad boring to
sit at your Amiga playing a text
adventure all alone, but it takes on a
whoie new dimension of excitement
when there are 50 other people
playing with you, all in real hme\
The picture below shows the
loglr; screen to one of the newest
and most interesting MUDs.
Discwotid. This is based on the
senes of Discworld novels by Terry
Pratchett and closely follows his
style of humour. However, de
wamed: this type of game is terribly
addictive and so terribly expensive.
That is their major disadvantage,
CONNECTlVmf
If, like me. you belong to a number of
on-hne services, there is another
feature available with Che Internet
which will be a lot of interest to you. I
belong to a system based In San
Francisco called The Well, but a
transatlantic call isn't cheap. The
Internet protocol called Telnet solves
this problem. This allows me to
connect to my local Internet
Gateway, in my case at CIX. and then
make a remote connection to The
Well in Amenca, All this is available
This makes CIX a very
economical method of Internet
access for the user who wants an
occasional Tile, or to grab some
information from Gopher every now
and then. Conversely it makes it an
expensive way to play one of the
MUDs, or to spend hours every night
chatting to some dude in California.
A very big plus in using the CIX
Gateway is that you don't have to set
up ail the software as you do with
other systems, as CIX has done all
this already. This can save an untold
amount of hassle for the average
computer user. Indeed, once you are
connected to the Internet Gateway
there IS plenty of on-line help to
guide you through your first uneasy
steps, as shown tn the picture below.
Already there is an Internet
conference open and very busy on
CIX, offering help and advice to both
hardened 'netter and Ijegmner alike
(one of the Moderators is a very
friendly chap called Dave Winder!)
DEMONIC POSSESSION
The other sen^ice I mentioned was
DIS. The Demon Gateway has been
open lor some time now. and is also
known as the "Tenner- A-Mo nth"
service. This is because you actually
pay ten pounds a month (plus VAT)
no matter how much time you sper>d
on-line- What this means is that DIS
\s a very economical method if you
what file areas are available by using
the "dir" command. I can then
change directory using the "cd"
command and list the files available.
It is very similar to using AmigaDOS,
and It should be - you are basically
using ine host computer's operating
system (usually UISlX). Once you
have found the file you want, you
request It to be transferred to your
computer, and the host site in effect
mails the nic to you. To do this you
just use Iho -gel" command<
GOPHER THE FACTSI
The Internet can also be extremely
useful for gleaning information on
just about anything you can think of.
This is because many imn>ense
databases are held at numerous
sites connected to the internet. To
help ygw 5ift through all this info,
mere is a program called Gopher
which can be thought of as a 'go for
th^s, go for that' utility. It gives you a
menu-driven database which shows
the tnformation, indexed by category,
available on various sites.
Gopher lets you delve through its
menu branches until you arrive at the
Information you want, at which point
you can connect to the site holding
the information and mail yourself the
levt fjl@ you are interested ■", In this
way. you're saved from having to
connect to various sites in the
search for the information you wanl^
as it is all done from a single Gopher
run i]i5cworlij
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Dark here. Isn't It? MUD {Multi-User Dungeon) games are a Logged on to a computer half-way round the world, and
popular on-line pastime. They may look like IradltJonal text- can't remember which command to use? The CIX
only adventure games, but they're very different to play Internet Gateway always has plenty of help on hand
is thai these newsgroups cover Just
about everything you can think of,
and 50 there are rather a lot of them.
Usenet sJtes include universities.
US Government agencies,
businesses and more. I could fill the
rest of this month's column with
facts about Usenet, but I won't.
Instead I wdl cover this topJC in more
depth in a forthcoming issue of AS.
(T'S A DIRTY GAME
There IS a lot of mud on tne Internet.
Or more accurately there are a lot of
MUDs on the Internet. A MUD. or
MuKfUser Dungeon, is an on-line
garne In the fomi of a text adventure.
I am sure you are all famlFiar with the
for just the cost or my focal call, [lis
this sort of service that is making
worldwide telecommunication a
reality for so many people.
Talking of connectivity, earlier I
mentioned two services offering a
gateway to the Internet at very
reasonable prices. First of all there Is
CIX, which Is how I personally access
the Internet. CIX has only recently
opened its gateway and already tt
has proved to Be a great success. To
access Internet this way you need to
t>e a memtjer of CIX - more details
are shown on the facing page. There
are no extra charges for using
Internet, so all you pay Is your
standard connection rates to CIX.
want to spend a lot of time
connected, making it ideal for playing
MUDs. chatting and such like.
The matn disadvantage is that
many people find it Quite difficult to
get the software set up and running.
as you have to do this on your own
computer. Having said that, once you
are a member of the service there is
a telephone helpline which will try
and get you going as smoothly as
possible. At the moment, probably
the most important difference
between these two services is that
DIS offers full Usenet access, while
CIX has a read-only service. However,
CIX hopes to offer full Usenet access
*n the near future. CQ
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the last few weeks.
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new sound chips, details of budget-
priced l&bit samplers, and
whispers about strange new sampio
formats appearing on the Amiga.
Even the 8-bit sampling arena gave
us a surprise because Black Mght
Peripherals' CrysXai Sound Sampter
has appeared and Iwlleve me this la
not vour ordinary, run-ot-the-mlll
piece of sampling hardware. We are
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that may end up giving Audio
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Youl! get IhG luli siorv aDom
Oy^iBi Sauna next month - by then
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floats, to jump up and down on it.
and TO Dut IT Througn 3H manner of
other undpeohatjie teaca. Tnis month
iiowever I ihougnt you migni De
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that may end up
gMng Audio
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its money/'
interested In those wnfspers about
new sample formats - but before
thai here's some news about
something else thai I discovered in
my musical travels, ,.
WALKABOUT MUSIC'S IFF
SOUND SAMPLE UBRARY
There are a lot of IFF sound sample
libraries available and for most
people there Just Isn't enough time
In tha day to locate them all, let
alone obtain, experiment with and
evaluate them. I'm in the same boat
time-wise but am fortunate In that I
do get to see rather more of what is
available than most people. Having
said that i stiU regularly come
across sound collections that I
hadn't previously encountered and.
once In a while, And samples which
(in an S-b\l IFF SVX sense) are not
only good but pre atunningly good.
Such is the case with some samples
I ran Into a few weeks ago from
Walkabout Music.
The library itself covers all the
usual types of musical instruments
(pianos, strings and such like) ana
also ir>ciuaes a loi of me more
obscure mstnjmenis and percussior^
sounds. Whether you want an Afncan
tabiah percussion sound, a Turkish
frame drum, or a didgendoOn the
chances are that you will Ur\6 ;t in
this 2S<Jisk library.
Each disk contains samples from
a particular sound category and the
full library list goes like this: African.
Indian instrument. Indian percussion.
Arabic, Far East, European. Oceania.
Americas, FX percussion. Drum ka.
Analogue percussion. Latin
percussion, guitars, bass guitars,
analogue bass, digital bass, brass.
Synth brass, pianos, stnngs. synlh
strings- choirs, organs, bells, and
sound effects (screams, gun shots,
explosions and morej. The number of
samples on each disk vanes,
depending on size, from 16 to over
100. I suppose that afound 35-40
sound samples per disk would be a
good average,
CLEAR AS A BELL
There's no doubt ot oil that
Wo! hobo ut Music fiaa done an
oicellent job technically but. as has
been proved time and time again, its
The Walkabout ^
library comprises 25 disks of
top-qyaiity 8-bit IFT samples. So, musiciana.
are you just pleased to see them, or Is that...
not just having good equipment that
matters - those doing the sampling
need to have a good musical ear so
that the samples capture the feel' of
the instrument in question. In short
you have to be a musician to know
when you've got it fight.
For instance, real church organs
lend to have extremely prominent
third and fifth harmonics which give a
special richness to their notes. Vou
need to caoture these if you warn to
create a reaksttc sample. Similarly,
modern bass players can produce
very charactenstic percussive effects
"more to the point,
you can hear them
af a level that
makes the sample
sound authentic"
Whether ifs a bass guitar or
a didgeridoo, there's a
sample for you in the
Walkabout disk library.
Paul Overaa sees if he can
hear the difference
Dy "Slapping me strings ana may
occasionally accentuate this by
pulling the strings away from the
frettioard at the start of some notes.
Even if you have all the best
Qftrnplmg eouTOnr>eni in The world you
are not going to get a decent
'modern sounding' slap bass sample
If you don't know how to produce
that type of sound on a bass guitar
in the first place.
WORTH LISTENING FOR
With the Walkabout Music samples
you can actually hear ttimgs like
church OTgan overtones and, more to
the point, you can hear them at a
volume level that makes the sample
sound auTnentic The bass guitar
sounds are pretty fair as well - In
fact they are as good as I've ever
heard. If you want lo get an idea of
just how good the library is. take a
look at the bass guitar disk (no. 14).
I suspect that many of the library
sounds (which. incideniaEly, are alt
taken at 16.726 samples per
second} will have been made from in-
house prepared 16-t)it master copies
or other 16-bit master sources. How
they've i^een oreparefl doesn't really
matter - it's the end results that are
important and m this case the
results aregood-
Now I'm not suggesting that
everyone goes out and buys the
complete library, but it would
certainly be worth your while asking
Walkabout Music for their IFF library
catalogue sheet. At this price, it's
also well worth trying out a few of the
disks that cater for any sounds m
your current collection that you're not
particularly hapoy with.
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Confused by all the different
sample formats? Don^t knoy^
your SSVXs from your Audio
IFF&? Paul Overaa reveals how
digitised sounds are stored
hose of yen who ere
sampling literate {ll^e what
I ami) wMI know that there
is a quite a variety of file
formats used to store sampled
sound data. On the 8-bJt front the
Amiga user has a choice of dozens
of samplers but the samplln£
software which Is used to collect
and store the digitised sound tends
to offer storage In one of two forms
- IFF 8SVX sound files or raw data.
On the face of It the choice Is
simple but. as far as IFF flies are
concerned, there ^s slightly more to
the story than first meets the ayo.
Almost everyone with an Amiga
gels to hear about the IFF
tInterchangeaDle File Format)
standard within a relatively short
space of time. IFF is a common data
file storage standard svjpDorted by
almost all Amiga programs which
read and write data. The purpose of
the IFF standard is to create a
situation whereby program data
(which could represent graphics,
music, sound, or whatever) becomes
'portable" (or, in other words,
interchangeable) and can be mowed
ijetween different Amiga software
packages (or perhaps even to similar
software applications running on
other computets).
WORKING TTTLfS
The standard has found acceptance
for the best reason in the world - it
works! An IFF sound sample created
and stored using SunRiae's Perfect
Sound sampler could, for instance,
be read in and edited using Aegis'
AudioMgster /V" before being re-
stored and used as a sound sample
in, say, OctaMED Professionai.
These IFF file arrangements worK
because vanous types of data are
stored in labelled "chunks' which
programs can identify and use (or
ignore) as they see fit. These labels
have four characters and with 8-bit
sound samples the chunks are
called 8SVX chunks, since they
represent 8-bit Sampled Voice data.
As it happens, it is possible to
create all manner of IFF 8SVX files,
including mono, stereo, multiple
octave, and even files which contain
multiple loop pomts.
To a sampling newcomer these
terms may not mean much anyway
and this in itself is one good reason
for putting their discussion on the
As l&bit sampling arrWes on the
acene, the days of the conventJonai
84>lt Amiga IFF 8SVX editor may
now be numbered
agenda Often even established
sample users, though aware of the
fact thai fFF sound files are used,
may not be completely sure of all the
various terms nor about the various
types of IFF 8SVX files that exist. But
as low-cost 16-bit samplers, like
MicrodeaE's Clarity 16. are about to
appear in the marketplace, Amiga
users are also going to see some
new sample file formats anive. Since
this is guaranteed to add to the
confusion I thought that this month I
shouid cast some light on the
existing IFF sound sample format
and on the new terms, like AIFF and
AVR, that Amiga sample users will
shortly start encountering.
Now, the object of this exercise
is to explain everything In a way
which allows the general Ideas to be
understood by everyone. So, Td best
start by apologrsing to any of the
more senous programmers reading
for skimping on some of the awkward
technical details.
RAW SAMPLE FILES
When you use digitising hardware to
collect a sound sample you provide
the digitiser with some kind of input
waveform (in other words, the sound
you are sampling). The sampling
software effectively chops up the
input waveform and, as we saw last
month, stores this data in memory
as a series of numbers. This digital
copy of the sound is often called the
raw waveform data.
Sampie-edJting ^^^^^^^^
packages which
store raw sample
files are simply
creating files that
contain just the
numtjers which
represent the
waveform in
memory after the
digitisation process.
Raw flies therefore contain the
digitised waveform data, but they do
not contain any ert/a
information, such as
details of the speed
at which the sample
should be played.
Because of the
lack of any inherent
playback or contents
in formation, a
program using a raw
sound sample file
needs to find out how
It should be used by
some other means.
For instancen many
games programmers
opt for raw sound
samples, but include
the various details of
playback rates and such like within
the programs that use the samples.
In order to play a sound the data is
read into Chip memory (memory that
can be accessed by the Amiga's
custom chips) in the same way as
any other file would be read in. The
benefits are that this is easy to do
and that, once in memory, the sound
is immediately ready to play.
QUICK AND DIRTY
This raw data approach is obviously
fine in specific situations where it is
being used by programmers who
know about the original samples and
''if is no good for
exchanging sound
data between
programs
if
know how the Amiga audio hardware
works. But It is no good for
exchanging sound data between
programs - a program reading a raw
sound sample file is not going to
know how It should be played back.
You will soon realise this if you ever
save sound samples in raw data
fomi and then try to use them in
other software packages.
What is needed of course is a
file format rhat saves not only the
waveform data, but also details of
how the sample should be played. In
other wonds the file must contain not
only the waveform data itself but
also some standardised 'header
information' which allows a program
reading the file to work out how it
should be played. This, of course, is
where the IFF SSVX standanj arrives
on the scene.
IFF SSVX FILES
As mentioned earlier, the SSVX
chunk defined in the IFF standard Is
used to store 8-bit
^■^^^^^^^ sound sample data-
in its simplest form
It will contain a
label, a size value,
and some
waveform data. To
a program reading
it an 8SVX file
looks like an IFF
^^^^^^^^ chunk and In fact it
Is -It's a chunk
unit known as a FORM which acts as
a sort of "container chunk' (you will
occasionally read about FORM SSVX
in the Amiga literaiure).
Aciually there is a bit more to the
story because inside the FORM SSVX
unit both the header info and the
waveform data are also stored as
sections called VHDR (Voice
HeaOeft) and BODY chunks. So even
a simple 8SVX file will, conceptually,
iook something like this:
<— Simple IFF FORM SSVX sound file — >
■cSSVX label >
<3ij!e>
<VHDR neaoennfo
':BODY wavetOim ddla>
The 8SVX, VHDR and BODY
chunks all have size fields enabling
the programs reading them to Skip
over them if they are not required. In
fact many other nested chunks may
also be present holding copyright
details and all sorts of other
infonmation, I am not going to
discuss the VHDR header in detail
but there are a few things about It,
and the associated waveform data
held in the BODY chunk, that are
worth mentioning-
The IFF sound sample format
allows a number of different
waveforms to be stored together,
including a 'oneshot' sample. This Is
a waveform that is intended to be
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MUSIC
played once at some nominal
playback rale. The file may also
include a 'repeal' part waveform. The
idea here Is that when samples are
played as musical Instruments, the
programs using them can initially
play the one-shot part of the
waveform, and then loop around
playrne Iho Vcoeol' oorl of the
w^uprorm ror q<; long as tne sound
needs to be sustained.
Most aomplc cditine aoftware
03ck;46e& aiLow you to set the start
and end loop points. When you do
tnis these iood values are also
stored in the IFF file so that
programs reading the file will be able
to itJemify the looped part of the
Wfivefnrm. However, not all IFT sound
rjies v\fi[ vtju come fK:ros5 win nave
both one shot and repeat parts of a
wavelorm stored,
TURN UP THE STEREO
So tar I've Deen talking in terms of
mono sompioSn Sicroo samples ore
stored in much the same way except
for the fact that the chunk definitions
arc slightly modified so that two
separate waveforms (for ^efl and
right stereo) can be provided:
< — BODY stereo waveform data —>
^left-channel wave form >
<right-charinei waveform >
Stereo samples may sound
goodn but they have one big
disadvantage - tt>ey lake up almost
twice as much space [both on dish
and in memory when playing). This is
only reaJly to be expected because
two lots of sound samples are
present in each stereo IFF file. In
fact, if you sample a sound in stereo
and then use one of the many
utilities that can convert SSVX fi[es
to raw data (which work by stripping
oiiJ pv**rylhtng
eicepl the
waveform data),
you'll find that when
you pfay the raw
version it will often
sound as though
your original sample
is being played back
twice. Of course,
what IS happening ^^^^^^^_
tioro »9 thol, with
the IF header details removed, the
software reading the sound can no
longer lOemify it as a stereo sample,
and so it just piays the data as one
tong single mono sample. The left
hand stereo data is played first and
this IS foffowed by the right-hand
data. Because it's all coming from
one channel, and because there is
usuafly not that much difference
between the left and right channel
data anywayn it sounds Just like a
single sample being played twice.
Programs that use sampled
sounds as instruments achieve
different notes by modifying the rate
at which they play back each sound
sample. However, samples always
sound best, or at least at their most
natural, when they are played back at
rates near to the one at which they
were originally sampled. With large
alterations in playback rates the
Quality of the votce can often
detenorate drastically.
PITCHES AND LOOPS
The IFF stanoard helps programs to
avoid these sorts of problems by
allowing multiple octave sound data
to be stored. This means that in any
given situation a program can
choose an octave nearest to the
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both users and software houses
alike, although it does complicate
the programming issues. As It turns
out, there is even more that can be
done in this respect.
THE ALL-NEW AUDIO
IFF' STANDARD
By this stage you will prohaOly have
gathered that the IFF BSVX sound
sample format is a pretty fle;<ible
beast. Nevertheless it has been Duilt
around the storage of 8-bit sample
data, and there's no doubt that in
time the SSVX format is going to
become obsolete- In fact, affordable
16-bit sampling resolutioHn in the
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Microdears new Clarity 16 package promises 16-bit sample resolution -
and a new range of sample tlJe formats to go with \i
"However,
Audio Iff does
hove a few
disadvantages
note it wishes to produce. Three and
five octave SSVX file versions are
reasonably common.
One of the biggest advantages of
the IFF SSVX chunk arrangement is
its adaptability, New chunks can be
defined and included by one program
Without that data causing problems
for other programs. A classic
example of this is seen with a
relatively new 'multiple loop' chunk
definition
registered by Peter
Norman of
Ram Scan Software
(who produce Audio
Engineer Plus). The
Audio Engir^eer H
ed^ting software
and Aiidiomasier
IV. the Aegis
_ - version of the
same package,
both allow multiple loop files to be
created. This has been achreved by
adding special chunks which store
pairs of loop start and "loop end'
definitions. Programs which can
understand (and- more to the point,
wish to use) the data m these
chunks can read them and interpret
the data as they see fit. Programs
which do not understand such
chunks, and this includes of course
all the programs written before the
chunks were devised, will simply skip
over and ignore their contents. This
type of flexible standardisation is of
//
t«t
form of Microdeafs Clarily 16
package^ will probably have surfaced
by the time you read this- And who
knows? In ten years' time we might
all be using 32'bit samplers!
In hindsight many people feel
that, no matter how good the IFF
SSVX format has been, it would have
been belter to concentrate on
producing a more general audio
standard. This could have considered
the oroblems related to things like
the handling of vanous types of
sample resolution (8-bit- 12-bit, 16-
pit and so on), the inclusion of MIDI
data (sysex messages for setting up
MIDI-controlied sampling equipment,
for instance), and more.
This, as you can imagine, is
quite a jcA to tackle but over the
last few years. Apple Computers (of
Macintosh fame), along with a lot of
othsr interested parlies, have t>een
getting together to produce a
standard for something known as an
Audio IFF File. Thrs has adopted the
IFF-style "identifiable chunk'
philosophy and, to encourage
widespread use. Audio IFF chunh
details are now available to anyone
who wants them.
Why, you may ask. does Audio
IFFget a mention? Rrstty Audio IFF
chunk definitions have been
registered wrlh Commodore along
with all the other third party chunks
and now represent an integral part of
the Amiga's IFF standard. Secondly,
and perhaps more to the point as far
as end users are concerned,
Microdeai's ClarHy 16. and many
other forthcoming l&bn samplers,
are almost certain to provide Audio
IFF type file storage schemes,
f Incidentally, there is an aTtemative
multiple resoTulion IFF sound sample
chunk, called SAMP, registered with
Commodore- but this seems unlikely
to win any further support now Audio
IFF IS here.)
However. Audio IFF does have a
few disadvantages which have
already come to light, at least as far
as developers are concerned. It is
reasonably complicated and many of
the issues it addresses are not of
Immediate concern as far as the
loading and saving of 16-bil sound
samples is concerned. One solution,
which would eliminate a lot of
preliminary development problems, is
for software houses to opt for a
simpler standard.
THE AVR FORMAT
This has been designed by Audio
Visual Research and is already in
wide use on the Atari ST with
products like Replay 16, AVR is a
simple format consisting of just
some header information followed by
the sample data. Since Audio Visual
Research are doing the Clarity 16
development work, I think it is fairly
safe to say that we are going to see
AVR appear on the Amiga scene - if
only as an interim measure while
programmers get to gnps with Audio
IFF. AVR support will also be good
news on a practical level because it
means that by using utilities like
CrossDOS we'll gain immediate
access to all the l&bit samples now
being created on the ST (and why not
- the Amiga has already stolen the
limelight from the ST. it might as well
steal Its 16-bil samples tool)
WelL that's about it as far as
sound sample formats and sample
files go. However, one thing's for
sure: the next twelve months are
going to be very interesting as far as
Amiga sampling is concerned. CD
SPECIAL OFFER: HEAR CLARITY 16 FOR YOURSELF!
Microdears Clarity 16 sampler must be one of the most eagerly-awaKed
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Just £129,95, thanks to Amiga Shopper mail order. Offering CD-QualEty
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PROGRAMMING
In fhi$ monthls programming
fuforial; Toby Simpson shows how
C enables you to go around in
circles, and to deal wf>h vast
arrays of strange characters
ome computer languages,
sucii ds BASIC and Pascal,
maho llto easy Tor the
prognmmer who wants to
deal with text Information. But C
takes a much more elementary
approach; If you want to do anything
with teM Information* such d9
printing how many letters there are
In someone's name, then you really
need to understand e;(actty what a
string is.
A slrtng IS an array of characters,
Um, OK. so wha! is a character, or
an an-ay for ihai matter? li is often
said that once a cospectjve C
progfammer understands character
arrays and how to manipulate them
then they understand the language.
Once you've crossed this bamer,
everything eise is piain saiiing. so
tion'i worry \\ it seems a iiuie DiL
wugh to ^ioT\ 9U v-iih.
So. let's gel straight on to the
siibjecC in hand- A character is a
singie letter, number, space or
punctuation mark, A string is made
up of a iong ime of these next to
each other, usually with a special
character at the end to say end of
string", tn C. this \s usually a zero
(also referred to as a NULL).
Programmers call this setup a "null -
terminated slnng'. So. what's an
array Uion?
ARRAY OF HOPE
An array is a similar iist of items
which share the same variable name,
each with ita own uniQUC reference
number in last month's mstaiJment
we talked aDout integer variables,
and v^ declared them like this:
int age;
Thfs gives us a single integer
variable caiied a£e. That variable can
hold any number between -32768
ond taZTOT. (it may seem Uhe an
odd ghgige of numbers, bul K dOes
make sense - honestiy! For those of
you who are interested in finding out
why. work out what those values are
in binary,) So, what if we wanted to
elofo ton peopTes" agC57 Wo*l, the
obvious method of doing this from
what we already Know would be to
declare ten variables;
Int age_l, aQe_2, agfl_3,
aoe_4 . . .and bo on
It is quite plain to see that once we
wanted, say. 1000 ages then this
woutd become ridiculous. Even sillier
would be the 1000 Lines of scanfs
we would need to read these in.
There has got to be a better way of
UuiMg Uib in C, diid thcfc IS, Using
our onampie of Icn agos, we can
declare an array instead:
int ages [101;
A GOOD PLACE TO START
What we have done here is to
declare an array of ten items called
ages, numbered from to 9.
Remernber: you should make a
mental note of the fact that the
numbering of arrays aiways starts
from 0- It's a common mistake to
assume that it starts from 1, which
leads to all sorts of elusive bugs.
If we wanted to set the fifth age
In the Ifst to 7. we could do this:
aged[4] ^ 7;
Very handy! Notice, incidentally, thai
element 4 in the array is the fifth
Item, as numbering starts from 0-
This will be even more useful when
we write a small program to set all
10 ages to 0. This will introduce us
to the concept of 'looping'. To see
whdi iiiib Is dH aboui, lets examine
this siTidll program fragment:
inc iQopf
int aaeaf 101 ;
variable before we used it. In this
case that would have introduced two
bugs: firstly it would have meant we
d<ant set ages[0| to 0, and secondly
we would have tried to set ages[10|
to 0. Since array numbering starts
from 0. agesllOl does not exist in
this program and that would have
caused it to write a to an illegal
memory location.
Vou may be lucky; the computer
might not crash...
WHIU AWAY THE HOURS
There are many other methods of
looping withm C, but we sMt Stick
with while loops for now. Getting
back to the ages, let's expand the
previous program, and instead maKe
a routine that allows the user to
enter 10 ages, and then prints the
averse on the screen. This one you
can compile and run:
JARGON BUSTING • JARGON BUSTING
Binary - Base 2, We count in tens,
this IS probably because we have
ten fingers. If wed all been born
with eight, (or sixteen even) then
learning programming would t>e a
much easier affatr as v^
wouldn't have to deal with
ridiculous decimal numbers such
as 32767. which in binary Is a
nice round 111111111111111.
In binary there are only two
digits. and 1 ior on and off,
true and false, high arvd low. or
whatever). Thus, counting to five
in binary goes like this: 0, 1, 10.
11. 100. 101, Thinking back to
your junior school days, do you
remember having lo wrcte out
columns for units, lens.
hundreds and thousands? These
are the powers of ten. In binary
we use the powers of two, so
instead you have columns for
ones. twos, fours, eights,
sixteens, and so on.
Haxadecimal - Base 16. This has
SJxteen digits, despite humans
loop = 0;
while (loop < 101
(
ageelloopti-] = 0;
}
Lost? Welln we have introduced
several new things here. The while
statement is the first one, and is
very easy to understand. Essentially
it means; "While the statement
within the brackets remains true,
execute the code within ihe squiggly
brackets'. In (his case, while loop is
less than ten. it executes the line
vrfiich sets the ages to 0. The other
new surpnse here ts loop++. This is
functionary the same as:
loop d loop + 1;
loop-«-+ IS just a Quicker way of doing
it - we can throw the +* tn straight
after we use the loop variable. The
technical term for this is "post
increment', meaning: use the
variable, and then add one to it. We
could have used pre- increment,
which would have added one to the
#include <atdio.h>
void inain(void)
i
int agestlOJ j
int loop;
int average;
/* Input the ten ages J
Into our array •/
loop = Oj
while {loop<10)
{
■eanfCM", J
fiageBf loop-!-*] ) ;
}
/* Reset the average
counter to and add all J
ages together */
average = 0?
loop ■ Oj
vhLle {loop<10)
I
average ? average J
+ agftB[loop-i-«-] ;
}
/* Average ia total of J
±
I AZ AMIGA ^HOPPCft tt I^CUC 22 • FIBRUARY 1^3
PROGRAMMING
all Itons divided by J
number of itens: */
overage = average / 10;
/* Flint th« rogult */
print f ( "The nverflfle age J
wai ^.\n", average);
)
This Is a good enampTe program for
both arrays and simple looping, as it
has two loops and some basic
manipulation of arrays. You should
try altering it to pnnt other
Ir^formation about the ages, such as
the lowest, highest, total and
average. The only way to really team
*s hands-on experience, so invest the
time to play around wjth the routines.
STRINGING ALONG
So, how do strings lit into this? Well,
as we saia earlier, a suing is an
JARGON BUSTING
pnly inventing ten. The letters A
to F are used for the missing six.
In henadecimal (or hen). F is 15,
and our strange number 32767 is
7FFF. To distinguish hen numbers
from other numbers in C, we
prefix them with Ox. For examtrie.
the number 0x10 is not equal to
10, but 16, since the columns
are all powers of 16.
Hello World - The first thing anyone
tries to print on the screen in any
new computer language.
array of characters. Say we nave the
null-terminated string "hello world",
and we want to find and print out
how long it ts. To do this, we need to
ftcan each element of Ihe array tn
turn until we firtO a 7efO. counting the
numtwr of elements as we go along:
ttinclude <Btdlo-h>
void malii(void)
{
char test_atringE201 = J
"hello world";
int length ;
laiigth - Qi
uMla (tdat.Qtrinall^n J
gthj 1= '\0'J
i
length*+7
1
prints t"LAAg«h of 'Km wbb ^
^An", teBt_Btring, length);
}
More new things here. Firstly we use
a new variable type, char to define a
string of a maximum of 20
characters in length. In this case we
are not filling it, but we are putting
the 11 characters that make up
"heffo world"" into ft.
Ramember: even though our
routine does not count the string
terminator, the zero at the end, it is
there! So. although our test string is
11 characters long, It takes 12
characters to store. This is another
of the most common bugs in C
programs: defining character arrays
of a certain size and filling them right
up, forgetting that the zero will spiii
over the end and cause more of
those really hard-to-find bugs.
The other thing we have
introduced is the operator 1= which
means not equaf to'. In this case we
are saying that while each
successive character Is not equal to
0. then add one to length.
Perhaps the most puzzling new
Ihjng IS the way I refer to as '\0',
C can be a real pain jn a couple of
instances, and this is one of them.
There is a distinct difference
between using ' and ". Watch out for
it. "s are for defining null terminated
stnngs. The others - 's - are used to
define single cJiaraclers. Last month
we talked about formatting
characters, such as \n to mean
newline. We've also used it in this
month's example programs. The
newline is actually a single character,
although it Is shown as two: \ and n.
C treats the \ character as special,
meaning that "the character after the
\ IS a control character and will show
wtiat to do next.'. If you try:
Drlnt£r\n\n\n"J;
you won't see a \ or an n in sight.
This is because C has seen the \
and then looked at the following
character tn order to find out what to
do. There are many possible
combinations (as shown in the box
below), of which \0 is one, and it
means a NtJLL character - the sort
that terminates a string. You may
now like to guess how the following
will appear on the screen:
i include <8tdio-b>
void loainfvoid)
{
printf { " • \\Ti\n\n\Ttn\\ii\A\ '" ) ;
}
If you get ft right, there should be
three ns, two apostrophes and two
\s on the screen, Rnally. the screen
should flash, due to the \a. It's
important to realise that each of
these escape sequences only takes
up one character. Our string "hello
worfd" with a newline at the end
would be referred to as:
Cher teat_Btring[20] - J
■hello worldVn";
And would be 12 characters in length
rather than 11 without the newline.
It's worthwhile ensuring you
understand characters < arrays and
strings because as we proceed
through this senes they are going to
pop up With increasing regularity.
CRYPTIC CHARACHRS
So what of the %a then? The %d we
already understand: it allows us to
print a decimal value onto the
screen. The %a is to pnnt a string.
We pass it the name of our character
array and it wilf print all the
characters jn the string till it comes
to the zero at the end. In fact, what
we have done here is to implement
the existing C function strlen. We
could rewrite our program like this:
ESCAPE SEQUENCES
\a - Alert ibeiJj. On the Amiga this (lashes the screen, or with Workbench
2.1 or 3.0 it can make a bell sound as well,
\b - Backspace: go back one character position.
\f - Form Feed, or go to next page. On a printer, this would go to the next
sheet. On the screen, this will clear the display,
\n - Newline, Or. move the cursor so it is at the start of the following line.
\r - Carriage return. Move the cursor to the start of this line.
\t- Horizontal Tab.
\v - Vertical Tab,
\ \ - The backslash itself, tf you want to print a backslash you need this
escape sequence to do It.
\'- Single quote.
\"- Double quote.
\ooo - Octal number, {This Is how we use \0 to mean end of string,)
\Khh - Hexadecimal number (We could use \xO for end of string if we
wanted, stnce octal 0, decimal 0. binary and hexadecimal are all equal.)
fficclude <stdio.h>
/* string. h contains loads J
of handy Btriny functions •/
Ninclude < string. h>
void main(void)
{
char te8t_8tring[201 • J
"hello world";
printf ("The length of ^ J
ie ^\n■^ test_BCring,
0trlen(test_Btring) ) ;
)
Now, why don't we try and get clever
here and write a program that
encodes text? We enter a stnng, and
the program wiM pnnt out a coded
version for us. The code can be quite
simple: we shall add five to each
character number, so A would
become F, and so forth:
iinclude <8tdlo.h>
iinclude <strijDg.h>
void maln(void}
{
char strlng_to_code J
[256 J = "";
int loop;
print£("Enter a string J
to code : \n" ) j
flcanf ("^55b", J
Btring_to_code) ;
loop * 0;
/* Loop through string, J
adding 5 to each character */
^^lile
lstring_to^codelloopj J- J
'\0')
{
Btring_to_codB[loop] J
■ Btrlng_to_code [loop] + S;
loopt+j
}
printf ("The result Ib: J
\n'^' . \n" , atring_to_code) j
}
Avery simple routine indeed. If
you>e feeling adventurous having
ingested all of this new knowledge
then perhaps you'd like to enhance
the program so that it asks you at
the start if you wish to either encode
or decode, and then asks you for a
key [the number added to each
character) to encode it with .
The only thing that is new to us
in this program is the use of scanf to
read in a string. You can place a
number between the % and the s to
mean "maximum length of string'.
This stops the program from crashing
if the user enters more characters
then we have allocated for. We must
also take into account the trailing
zero that will also be appended to
our string. QJ ■
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Cacophony {UnMnKBd) A,ms to create quality
PD wilTi AMOS and others. Help given Mark
Wichson, 49 Pefrott CKise, Nortn te^gn,
WEtne>, 0(0nOXB6PlJ
Cami»n«y Uaai QriHjp Lectures,
competitions, advice, meetings, free
memOerahip. For more mfo contact F
Weiioeiove « 0252 87i 545
PO Ck* PD ai 30p. nowatertefa.
advice, help wj mgre. Membership £10
Contact Steve Picketr, 31 Somerset Close.
Car^ick. N Yorkshire. DL9 3HE
Cheapo PO Club Non-prD^i making postal PD,
r^ewsieiiers. aovLce Membership £5. Contact
iason Meachen, lv> Cottage, Chapel Road,
Beaumont. CJacton, Essex C016 OAR
Cb*ater4«-Stre«t 16-Blt Computer Club
Grourio ^oor hjriciion suite. Trte Civic Centre,
Newcastle Ro. Cnesie^ie-Stree' Meets
Mondays from 7 30 9.30i>m Exchange
fltSice arxi swap tips. " Peter Mear» 091
385 2939
CDTV Ukert CTub Technical support, news,
compiling com patioie software list. Free
membership -just send SAE Contact Julian
Lavariini. 113 Fouracres Rd. Newaii Green,
MancTiester M23 S£S
Clik Computer CiuP Fuii details with or Sa£
10 STAMP ChiC Computer C>uD, PO Bpif 121.
Oer'aras C^oss. SuCks. For info conTBcl Steve
Winter « 0753 804473
Club 88000 Competitions, programming,
rr>u5ic Meets Harrogate Leisure Centre,
MonOflYS 6 l&pmlOpm. SAE to ChTl*
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N Vorks. HG3 lEJ • 0423 891910
Club Affl«a £10 a year for PD and a 244ir
tiBlpiine se'vtce i09l-365 2627j. For more
info send SAE to Cfins Longiey, 5 Bowes Lea,
Shiney Row. Houghton Le Spring. Tyne and
Wear
Club Futura Ai^vice to programmers and
beginners Se^d SAE tor in^o to 3 Holland. 16
Hermiston. Monkseoton. WTi^tley Boy- Tyne &
WMrNE25 9AN
Comp-U-Pal "^s'raliar^ group fpr users in ttw
ou'Loac' rjewsietter, neipiirw, PD library.
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helping new users mm problems
Ent©r»r*»o PD Free' PC it you supply Oiahs
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of month. £15 per year, 50p on door. Contact
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L^ncft rV7 7B9 • 02&3 772502
GaJacllk PD Swaps and sells PD. Contact E
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LL18 bUG. Demos, music. Utilities, games,
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Game Swap Club Snap original software and
hardware. Membership £3. Contact Ade
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240399
Qini«r-Unh International pen-pal club for
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and chealS- Life mernber^hip £5. Contact Stu
or Dave. 2S Churchfield, Ware, Herts SG12
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Rd. Brajnston, Nr Oavenlry Northanis MNll
7HQ free advice on programming m GfA.
Also tutonai disk for sale. Beeinfiers and
advanced users welcome. Free membership
Olbrattar Amlfta UMr« Club PD library,
monthly newslerrer disk in^Kazme.
eorn^Trtianfi. rsflular meelmg^ (»n the iahn
MdCiniosn Htfll). MemDcrsnip from £6 per
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Lodf^B, Montagu Gflrdoni, G<brj?ltar « 010
3D0 73Dia
Auru MflBtan PO ^mo« etc. conTact tTta
SWrlff, 111 Snertioume Rd. Banbury.
Wolwrnamnton WVlO 9FU n 0902 782277
Hvmpahire PD Club Mi he Oallicnnc at 79,
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3rrt on 0703 363323, TuDiic Domain D15K5
at 35p Montnry competitions. SAE for more
Into to the above aodress. £10 a year
hDrlcys ro Swdpttfoma Public dom^fn
swapp'Og Oy niar'. Contact G Vamey, 140
Weston Dr've, Oteiy, West Yo<hs LS21 20J •
0S43 466896
Harafpfd Amtg» Group Memiiership free,
Wp. exchange cji PD and stiareware Lotus
TiJitK} 2 Quad Player Chamoionsnip, Contact
John fylactlonaid. Alma Cottage, Aiiensmore.
Hereford HR2 9AT ir 09S1 21414
HefTpFt Computer Club Hardware ^iHp and
,nJojniai.ioi. p<ograni swapomg. Meetlr^T-
lOpm. Monoays. Memt>ersnip £3 per term.
50p oer ntght. Coritact John Maynard. Hermit
Centre, Shentield Road. Breniwoodr Essex
CUl5SAGe0277 3lBS97
Homo»oft PD Over 2000 Amtga PD from 20p
to 69o, Sena SA£ for free disk catalogue.
Contact Chns Home 23 Stanwell CI.
Wincobank. Sheffield S9 IPZ
HTS [Malta) Free membership. Contact K
CaFssar. BloTk' 1 Flat, 6 H E HalTmiem, Zejtur
^Tr*07 Malta " 574023
Hynflbum Arnica U«arfi Club Tuition, advice.
PD, and more Meets Mondays. 7om. at tne
Canine Clubn Accringion (£l on the door).
Comaci Nrgel Rigby, T Brecon Avenue
Oswaldtwisue, Lancas^iLre BB5 4QS ^ 0254
395289
In Touch Amiga Penpals, contacts, PD,
Swap^ £2.50 per year For more mfonnation
contact P Allen. 03-12 835530, PO Bo* 21,
Lingtield, Surrey RH7 6VJ
Independent ConunDdore Productfi UMfS^
Group Bi^in Hill Library. Church Rd, Biggin
Hill, Kent. Meets most Thursdays from 7.45-
9,45pm, Lectures and open nigt^ts. " John
Bickerstaff after S.30pm 081 651 5436. Also
national network of user groups. Contact
individual groups 'or details on activHies.
cosl. meetings etc;
Andovar « R Geere 0264 790003
CovenUy rr w Light 0203 413511
DubJIn n G Reeves 010 353 12 883853
LfifKtB TT R Fyre 0532 487691
Macclesfield « P Richardson 0298 23644
Mersaysldo n G TimennRton 051 521 2563
Mid ThamflB v M Hatt 0753 645728
S Wales ICPUG ft I Kelly 0222 513815
Solent w A Dimmer 0705 254969
SoutfiWest -B P Miles 0297 60339
Stevenafie n B Grainger 0438 727925
Watford T B Rigby 0923 264510
W Riding TT K Morion 0532 537318
WLgan 9 B CafiwalL 0542 213402
JJC Amiga correspondence course £50 per
year. Contact PO Box 19, High Wycombe,
Bucks HPll lUF. n 0494 983347
Kant Vouth Computer G'oup Contact Jim
Fanning « 0233 629804 Nortn Vouth Centre,
Essella Rd, Ashford, Kent. Meetings at the
North Vouth Centre, Thursdays 7 - lOfwn
computer fair visits, video and DTP wortt.
monthly newsletter Membership 40p per
month
Lotnian Amiga Uieri Group Contact Andrew
Machie « 0506 630509 52 Bimiehtll Ave,
Batngaie. W Lothian EH4S 2RR Advrce and
help in buying hanjwa«e. soft*are etc. group
buying, dealers" circulars welcome.
Membership free
Ntariflme Amiga Club Maritime computing,
interact witn sealarers ashore on Amigas,
Contact CDR H Osei, GN Ships Refit Office,
51 Rue Oe la Bretonniere. 50105 CherCfOurg.
france. "33 33225447
Markunan Trojan Phaier user groupl Contact
David Green. 67 Thichet Drive. Maltby.
Rotherfiam. 5 Yorkshire S66 7LB Promotes
use of the Trojan Phazer, swaps PD and own
programs, oish magaj:ine
Mytteiy Game Swapping ^nd a game and
receive a mystery one back. Deborah Tuiiy, 08
Lime Court. Pendleton. Salford, Gtr
Manchester M6 5EG
H IretarKl Amiga User Contact Stephen
hamer. 99 Creo' . "u, BalJyniena, Co Antnm
BT42 40S. Disk based mag £2.50 per issue.
Free PD, SAE for further info
Maw Halt Anriga Users Club Games, graphics,
Tiusic. work[>encM piDgramming, Meets 7 pm
every Tuesday, new Hall Social Club, 104
^i> Rd, Dawienstaii. Membership £5 pet
year, under 16s nof allowed Contact Bill
Grundy. 115 Stanley St. Accnngloo.
Lancashire o 0254 385365
Hwnero Une PD. swapping, compettioris, pen
pais. £3 50 per annum. Contact DiHon Eyre.
21 Burstall HjH, Bndlmgton. N Hijmbcrside
Y016 5NP
Pascal Programmers Group Disk based
newsletter lor Hignspeed Pascal users. Free
memtwrship. Contact Coiin Yamgil. 93
Mancbesle' Rd, Wilmslow, Cneshire SK9 2JQ
PenAln» Amiga Club 26 Spencer Street,
Keighiey, West Vo-hshire B021 2BU. Free
membership, free advice and a newsletter.
Contact Neville Armstrong for more info "
0535 609263
Perth and District Amateur Computer
Society For furtner inlormal.or cor'lacf
Alastair MacPherson 137 GlasfiDw RO. Penh.
Meetings tMird Tuesday m every month. Spm.
General advice, talks. Amiga PD. Memoershio
£6 O'free 'or under I65
Pete's PD PD from only £1 per Oisk. Seno
50p for disk catalogue to Peter Garrett.
Chestnut Cottage. White Lion Road,
Amersham, Bucks HP7 9JR
Public Ootnain Encbange Demos, music,
utilities, animation. Annual lee £S Contact D
McLeish, 26 Taunton Ave, Leigh. Lanes wn7
5PT
Public Domain User Gioup Swaps PD.
provides advice. SAE lo 12 Oxford Rd,
Guildford, Surrey
PUG Contact S Jackson * 0445 772331
Whiiebeam Coifage. Trertiyngyll, Cowbndge, S
Glemorean Cheap PD library, swap hints,
reviews, articles etc Send an SAE for further
details
Redbum Computer User Group Contact Paul
Arnistrong » 0294 56003, 12 Highlield St,
Kilwinning, Ayrshire KA13 7BN. Meetings at
the Red burn Community Centre. Dickson
Drive, trvine. Group rneels every second
Wednesday from 5 Aug 92, 6.45 - 9.30pm.
Help, Ideas, PD and shareware, graphics and
business. Memt)ersniD ?5p per meeting: £7
per year
Rye Computer Club Swap/meet al the Ry?
Community Centre. For info contact Oliver
Campion, 71 The Mini, Rye, E Sussex TN31
7DP o 0797 222S76
Seriau9 Amiga U^er^ Membersnip £5. £1
admission. Contact J Kucak for more: « 0706
290387. Fortnightly meetings 7.3011 at the
High Crompfon Conservative Club
Shield>ort PD at Wrlmar Lodge, 13 Chunon
Rd. Rhyl, CLwyd.LLlS 3NB. Wnte for more
Information. Basic programming hefp. Advice
on the CLI and AMOS. Disks from only 50p to
eop. Membership free fl 0745 343044
Sheflock PO Quarterly disk mag, help and
advice for beginners. 50p per disk. A Doyle,
44 Milton Street, Wanenpomt. Co Down^ N
Ireland
Shropshire Amiga Link Advice, monthly disk
mag, PO £15 per year fee, Contac', N
Cockayne. 2 Dodmoor Grange. Randlay,
TeKord. Shropshire TF3 2AW " 0952 5913T6
^
Sifm Agnus 115 Brocks Dnve, Norfh Cheam.
SuUon. Surrey SM3 9LIW, Group meets the
last TnuTSday of every month PD library BBS.
advice from Amiga experts. Contact Phdip
Worrel-
Softwara CKy Swapping, competitions, club
magazine. Membership 18. Contact N
Richanjs. 9 Holirs Close. Manor Estate Farmn
Rawmarsh, Rotbemam, S Yorks SG2 7LX or »
0709 526092
Software Exchanga Club Free neip and
advice. Contact Michael Lacey, fern's Post
Office, Enniscofthy, County Wexford. Republic
of Jreiand
Software Exchange Serv^e 13 BournviMe
Lane, Stircf-.tj. B rmingnam. West MiPlarKJs
B30 2JY For more info
459 7576
Micbael Pun 021
South IG Bimonthly mc^ and disk, also PD
libraiV^ £10 per year, Sef»d SAE to Bruce. PO
Bon 16, Southampton S09 7AU
Southend Team Music. PD. Free membership.
Conidct Scoll>. 52 Prmce Avenue. Souther^d-
on^Sea, Essex SS2 6NN » 0702 333974
SouthporT Amiga Users Advice, friernjiv
evenings Monoays at Spm. No cnarge,
discounts trom local store. For info contact
Michael Mttcnsm. 5 EE4Sda*e Drive Amsdaie,
Southpoft. MeisysiOe » 0704 79936
South Wales Club ^ewsle1ter. PD library. t'M
newsletter, pnngrams. neip and advice. For
more ir^fo contact D Alien 53 West Avenue.
Treceriydd. Cae'philiy CF8 2SF
Steel PD. Cheats, 'deas. music, art.
programming, nardware mods. Free
memoership I postal only). Contact Barnes
Whiienead, 33 Middle Cliffe. Dnve Croweoge,
Sneftie'd 830 5HB
Synt'Onln Editman and Gen^k To solve
editing prouiem^ ano lactory service contract
complaints 24p postage for newsletter.
Contact Andrew Keenan, 75 Whuetielo Road.
Penwoflham, Preston, Lancashire PRl OQR «
0772 745110
Twilight Advice on Hardware and
50ftware,Fred Fish PD Free memoersnip,
disks 50 p each. Contact 13 Mavis Court,
Ravens Close. London NW9 5BH
i>K Subs The Hanger BBS. trading post for PD
files, swapping. Free membership. Contact
DiOdy / Arklight » 0525 875518
Unique Styles Derek at 15 Mon^omery Rd,
Hignprooms, Tunbridge Wells, rtent o 0892
518319. By post only. For Amiga artists.
programmers/ musicians. Free membership
Video Edging Club invites DTV users for
bthng and editing. Quarterly maga?ine» send
SAE for details to Danny Fisher. 3A
Thom bridge Road, Iver Heath, Bucks SlO OPU
VlAeo Visuals Eiciuslvely for video pmducers,
PD library, geniocking. digitismg. ciuartetly
dish magazine. Memt>ership £10 per year.
Contact Chris Qrown. 4 LavencTer Close.
Wit ham. Essex CM8 2YQ
Wanliay Hem Contortlum User group lor
Amiga and possibly others. Membership fees
to be discussed and incurred PD library to l>e
set up. Also Hern connection ^ worldwide
contacts wanted, SAG ano disk to WardCon
info. {AS) Wancn Hardy. 21 Slockfield Ave.
Fenham. Newcastle upon Tyne NE5 2DX
Warpdrive Heip-Mne, PD library, bi monthly
disk mag, free drinks, competitions arid
infosheet. £15 per year. Contact B Scales
110 Burton Ave. Bafby. OoncaSter DW4 8BB
tt 0302 859715
WCSPSAI Help available. PD disk ol your
choice and newsletter every montn. PO at £1,
Memberstiip £25. Fo" furttier info contact A
Jamieson»0749677609
Wllkiw PD Free advice, disks only 90p each
Free memc^rsnip. Contact Willow PD. 2
Longbddge Close, Sherfieid on Lpddon,
Bas-ngstoke, Hants RG27 ODQ it 0256
882654
WreirhMfl District Computer Club PD. library,
eojip-nerii loai. lOo to joi", 50p to get in.
Meetings at tbe Memorial Hail. Wrexham
every Thursday. 7 lOpm, Contact Paul Evans.
3 Ffordd Eifed. Rhosnesi, Wrexham. Clw>d
LL12 7LU
Your Amiga Crub Helplines, PD. sociaF
evenings. Classes, c "jD mag Foe. £12. family
£15. Contact P HIggins « 0424 892269. The
Old Chapel. Cnjrch Ro. Catsfieid Batue,
Sussex TN33 9DP
m
Zymurgy Genera! Amiga computing Free
membership. For further mfo contact A Carr.
39 Sewihin^ Rd, Ipswich. Suffolk IP4 3JB »
0473 725241
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20 IS Wlzzy's Quest
2050 Ir>sider5 Club
2155 GhostBtup
2167 Llamalron
21 77 Nichlaus Dal3 Disk 2 Lntord
2178 Sky Flyer
21G3 Revengf? ol Miiiant Camels
3134 TomcaT
318E Ouik&SiTva
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Z192 SJoryland?
2196 Assassins Games 14 {HP)
2198 21 Games
2222 Challenger fNP)
22^3 Landmine / Sub Attack
2226 Mrne Clearer / Scud Buster
22^7 Bounces Blast
Z22B Question Tort
2235 Beast
2236 Escape
2241 Super Skoda Challenge
2243 E-type
2244 Survivor
2249 SIC
2251 Orb'i! / Vlngl et un
2252 Smash TV Rip-Oft (NP)
2253 Contact Number 1 jNPJ
2255 Kingdom at War
2370 Cybsrneti.* (NP)
2273 Bfot)
2274 Billy the Dragon
2275 Serene 3: Final Battle
2277 PGGt
2293 Mr. Bnck
2294 Magnairon (NP)
3?95 Rush Hour
229$ Pork A Pig
2297 Nebula: Wars of Uropa
2296 Super Pacman '92
2299 Ouch'
2300 Excahbur {NPl
£301 Properly Market (NPj
2302 No Mans Land
2303 Operation Desert Storm
2304 Project l
2305 Master of the Town (NP)
2306 Destination Moon
2307 Nadroj
2310 GoLoolyl
USCf UL SOFTWARE
442 DPilinr Foni^ DisKs (4)
632 MSH {Messy DOS)
642 CManuai
901 TheComrT>9 Disk
1022 AMOS Update 1.34
1 095 Database Workshop (2J
1 097 OPaint / PSetier Clip Art (2)
1117 Geneaology
1451 EiectfoCAD
1545 SpeciraPaint V3.0
15S0 FJemBase V3
1569 I anguage Tutor
1606 Database Master 2.0
le/S Texipius Shareware WP
I860 DCopy a Uliiilies
1893 DICEV2 06A
1696 Desk Bench (3)
1906 PaoeSotier Clip Art (8)
1914 Slidoshow Construction Kit
1951 King James Bible (4 j
1987 Ouickbench
2012 Draw Map V2.3D
2174 Anli-VirusV3.t4
2160 Text Engine V3.0
2iei Amiga FoA DTP
2182 Window Bench (NP)
2186 Perm Check
2189 Print Slud-o VI 25
2190 Picture Conveitors
2195 BBRSe2
2197 UmCqpy V1.0
2200 Litlle Bench (Plusonly)
2202 Tarot2{2KNPj
2220 Dungeon map VI .0
2221 Amigazer V3.0
2224 Landscape (NP)
2225 Budget
2229 MEDV3-2
2230 Mega Monitor V3.2
2231 Hardware Hints Vol.1
2232 Hardware Hints Vol.2
2233 OpriComms2
2?34 STOCoae Finder
9237 Tqrm V1 9C {WB 2 only)
2242 6'Cokiur Icons
2247 Shdeshow Creator
2248 Ed Word
2254 AMOS Compile' Update VI .
2256 Race Rater VI 6
2257 Cyclops VT
2259 Magnetic Pageif Vl ,3
2276 DLab
2314 The Animation Construction
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VOIO WORD FACTORY (CH)
V02fl BUDDBASE (UT)
V042 XSTfTCH(UT)
V044 FORMULA ONE CHAUEMGE(GA)
V045 MUSIC BOX (CH)
V047 DfRTY CASH (FRUIT MACHINE)
V051 MAGICAL YOUNG ARTIST {CH)
V059 PREHISTORIC FUN (GA)(UT)
V064 RESCUE IUGA)
V065 POWER PLANNER/ DIARY (UT)
V066 HOTEL MANAGER (GA)
VOee VIRUS BUSTER V2 2 (UT)
V069 MAGICAL MtX-UPiGA)
V070 PAINTBOX (CH)
V071 BATTLECARS (GA)
V072 MONSTER ISLAND (GA)(UT)
V073 AMOS DATABASE V4.0 (UT)
V075 VIDEO LAB VI (UT)
V077 POWERBASE V2 HUT)
V079 MUSIC ENGINE (AM}
V081 POOLS PRO VI .2 (UT)
V082 COLOURING BOOK 2 (CH)
V083 PICTURE HANGMAN [GA}(CH1
V084 GUESS WHO (GA)
V067 PUZZWORD(GA)
V069 SKYBASe 22 (GA)
V090 CONCERT BOX (UT)(CH)
V091 FUN TO LEARN (CH)
V094 ALL SQUARE (GA)
V095 KID0IE5CLIP AnT2
V096 MAGIC WASS0CKS2fGA)
V096 POWERTEXTV1,02(UTJ
V099 PEG A PICTURE (CH)
VIOO SPRITE EDITOR *II(UT)
VlOl MORSE CODE TUTOR (UT)
V102 DISTANCE ESTIMATOR (UT)
V103 GADGE 1 iGA)
V104 MONEY MONITOR (UT)
V105 SUPER SKODA REVENGE (GA)
V106 ORGAhJISERI (UT>
V107 EGO(GA}
V108 FAMILY HISTORY DATABASE
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V109 METAL LIFE (GA)
VltO MONEY SPINNER (GA)
Vlll STOCK CONTROLLER VI .0 (UT)
V112 INVOICE.ORDER MANAGER (UT)
V115 ROOTS (UT)
VI 16 NOLO SQUASH (GA)
V117 JEWELS (GA)
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search utilky yet - i^nd you can Find tt on
nglia PD hae &dnt me
FredRsh dlskc 731 to
7S0. 90 this month 1*11 be
looking at what the
latent school of Rsh hae to offer, ae
weM as checking out a variety of
other offerings. Fred Fish. In case
you're new to the Amiga scene, b a
tiFeless Individual (or these days I
Imagine ^s a number of people) who
lives In the United States and Is
sent virtually every new PD and
Bharswara program wfittsn for the
Amiga. He collects them on to disks
and sends them out, ten at a time,
into the Amiga community. Many
PD houses sell Fish disks, and tt s
become accepted practice to refer
to a fD program by its n»h disk
number. 5o. non you know where
the products come from, let's check
out the quality of the merchandise!
FINDIT
Fish disk 731
Wntlen by AustFalfan Gary Smith.
RndIt is a PD program whlcTi
provides one of Ihe most complete
methods of searching for a specific
file that I've yet seen. It requires
WorKDench 2,0 or aOove, and is luUy
'Intuilionised' - it worl<s by double-
clicking on its icon from the
Workbench. Unlike olher, similar,
utilities, rindlt doesn't use a wildcard
system of searching - that is.
entering frB'? iff would find every file
which began with the letters 'fr" and
ended with '.iff'. Instead, there are
spaces for entenng tent which the
file or directory name starts with,
coniame and ends witn. Any (or all}
of UiG5C can te left blank, and they
file and directory
Rah disk 731
can aH be 'Inversed' -
or, to put it another
way, you can look for
file or directory names
which don't start with, don't contain
or don't end with specific text too.
Other controls include the ability
to search just for flies, just
directones or both, whether to
search a specified directory only or to
perform a recursive search -
Checking each sub-directory as well -
and whether the search should be
case sensitive or not, Rnally, if you
haven't Ijeen specific enough in your
search parameters, resulting in a
massive list of fifes, you can narrow
the search down by entenng a new
parameter or two fsuch as the
creation date from which to start, for
instance) and only performing the
new search on the ewsting list of
files. Once you've found a file you
can print it out, read it [if it's a text
file) or view it if it's in IFF format
Rnally, you can copy^ delete or move
any file once you've found It.
My only complaint with Findit is
thai It seems to be a little slower
than some of the other utilities that
I've tested. Still, that aside. It's well
worth getting hold of If you seem to
spend hours looking for files burled
hundreds of drawers deep on your
hard disk.
Program rating S/10
GADTOOLSBOX
Rshdfsk 731
GadTootsBox. by Jan van den Baard,
should save programmers vast
amounts of time. It allows you to
RATING THE PROGRAMS
JubI to bA awkward, I rate the software that I review in two dlfferertt ways,
depending on what it is. DIah magczmes, collections of clip art and the
like are given a 'value for money' rating, since you're essentLally paying for
one thing, or group of things, on tho disk,
single programs which appear In a cotlectfon of others, or pragrams
which J've dnwnloftded from bulidtin boards, are given a 'program rating'.
Which Fenoctfi how good I thinl< they aie. taking into account ueablllty,
bug-proofne», my own particular (or should that be peculiar?) tastes and
so on. Both laUngE are out of a maximum possible 10.
This month: the ones that didn^t
get ay^ay^ Ian Wrigley surveys the
latest haul of Fred Fish utilities to
reach our shores^ plus another
bumper crop from the best of the
rest of the public domain
BEGINNERS
What fe PD?
PD \s a general
temi which many people
Incorrectly use to refer to all freely-
distributable software. In fact, PD
(which stands for Public Domain)
software is only one branch of this
area; the other main one is
shareware.
Essentially. PD software may
be copied and used by anyone,
although some authors place
restrictions such as not allowing a
PD library to charge more than a
certain amount for the disk.
Shareware, on the other hand,
should be treated more like
commercial software. Although
you are allowed to copy and pass
around shareware programs, it you
like one then you should pay the
requested fee to the author - It's
normally around £15 or less, and
often entitles you to an upgraded
version or a printed manual- Paying
your shareware fees encourages
software authors to write more
programs - and if they don't, the
Amiga scene will be a poorer
place. Don't think that you're
paying money for nothing, either -
often hundreds or even thousands
of hours of work have gone into
creating a program, and it's only
right that the programmer receives
some reward for his or her work.
The third branch of software
that we cover here is called
11 cense ware.
This is a form of
shareware which is licensed to one
(or more) PD libraries, in essence,
vrtien you buy a llcenseware
pn^ram you are buying shareware
and paying the license fee at the
san>e time. For this reason, you
should treat any license ware that
you buy exactly as you would treat
a piece of full-price commercial
software - don't pass it around to
your friends. You've only bought
the right to use it yourself.
Can t pass other peopie copies?
Yes - that's the way that PD
reaches a wider audience. Just
make sure that you have followed
the author s requirements for
distribution. These are normally
things like not charging more than
a certain amount for the disk, or
that you make sure that all the
original documentation is included
on the disk.
You can also pass on
shareware - but not any r^stered
copies of programs. If. v^en you
pay your shareware fee. the author
sends you an improved version of
the program, then be careful not to
give that out. Only pass on
unregistered shareware.
You should not, of course, pass
on llcenseware - it should be
treated in the same way as
registered shareware.
AMIGA SHOPPER « ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1993 I 4A
m^mm —
creale your progfam's user imerface
-gadgets, menus and the like -
graphically, and will then generate
source code in either C. assembly
language or Oberon, Its eKtremety
powerful, without sacrificing any ease
of use in the process.
FONTVIEWER
Fifth dksk 732
Another utility by Gary Smith,
FontViewer does exactly what its
name suggests. It will display up to
30 fonts at once, each in its own
window^ at any size, and each with
QffdTootsBoA iillovrs programmers to grapMcally and easHy create a u»r
Interface for thoir program* - it produces alt the source code for you
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K your font* drawer ■• the btefie«1 directory on your hard diflk, then
rvftiVivwct Will tie Involuadle. allowing you to view up to 30 at a time
I 30 iines of user-definable text. \l
Creating a window is as simple
as clicking and dr^^ing wherever
you want to place an object - slider,
button, check box, text or whatever.
If you don't alrgn them properly at
rirsi, aon'L warry - there's a menu
Hem dWdiidUit wmcn cIdcs Jusi mat,
even, if you want, duplicating sizes
so that they're all iden^icah
Menus are created just as easily
- both main menus and submenus
are catered for. Want a menu choice
to be initially checked or dimmed
ouf^ No problem!
Really, the range of facilities in
IMS program is almost obscene.
Even the documentation supplied is
exceHent- To be honest, it's amazing
thst thia program i^ frccworc: I'm
sura ihot plenty of programmers
would pay a shareware fee if one
were requested - after all, it will save
hours of work.
There's only one comptamt that 1
really feel compelled to ma^e: Jan
earnestly recommenas mat anyone
who can should go and see U2
pmying on rheir Zoo TV tour. To which
I wouicT r^Jspofifl: Get a itfO- manf
They're dreadful!
Program rating 9/10
supports WorVtjench 2.0 outline
fonts, ColorFonts. selectable screen
resolutions and can show the fonts
In bold, italic and underline fonns.
MEGAD 2,0
Rah diftk 736
OK, right, stop it now. This is,
without a doutit, the most fully-
featured directory utility ever. Its
documentation claims it fo be "The
best directory utility ever made for
the Amiga computer". Well, if best"
equals 'most fnghteningfy complex",
that description is certainly correclf
Oh God, This program really is
complex. As I sit here, trying to use
the program m order to evaiuate it.
I'm left with the feeling that life really
is too short. For a
start, the ^^^^^m^am
documentation is
about 60 pages long,
while the tutorial -
which is the
recommended
starting point for
anyone not familiar
with the program -
runs to a alarming
126 pages. Still, I'm ^^^^^^"
the reviewer, so I struggle on.„
Right. Several hours later (well, it
feels like ii), and the real power of
this program is beginning to become
clear. My initiai feeiings stilJ hoJd -
this really is one of the more
complex utilities I've come across -
but I can now apprecjate that the
cornplexity IS because of the
enormous range of features. For
example [and this is one of the more
minor' features) it's possible to copy
files and director es to multiple
destinations at once. For instance, If
for some strange reason you wanted
to copy files from a floppy to your
RAM disk, another floppy drive and
two partitions of a hard drive, that's
no problem -iust select the
destinations you want, the files you
want to copy and hit the Copy button.
As a default, every file you select will
"The besf directory
ufilify ever made
for tfie Amiga
compufer"
Frw Va1tfl*t
MogaD - could this be the most complex directory utility ever devised?
That's ^>out it, realTy. A sfmple
utility, but one which will be
Invaluable to anyone whose disk is
loaded up with fonts. You know the
situation: "l just know that I've got
the ngnt font here somewhere, but
Tm damned if I know what it's called
- and Tve got more than 70 fonts to
search through." Well, at ieast
FontViewer speeds up the searching.
Program rating ^ 8/10
have its '.info' file automatically
selected too, so there's no messing
about doing that by hand. [Of course,
this can be turned off )f you want.)
Likewise, you can easily copy from
multiple sources to one destination.
The program is fully
customisabie. and can be configured
to recognise file types and to
activate programs which can deal
with whatever program you select.
There's the facility to automatically
run archrving programs such as LhA
and LhArc from within the utility.
There's,,, well, jusi about anything
you want, really. If you ever found
SIO or a similar utiiity limiting in any
way. the chances are that MegaD will
do the job for you.
MegaD is shareware; the author,
John L Jones, requests a $30
registration fee. The unregistered
version of the program won't save
preferences (end you're likely to want
to customise it severely), and slowry
disables facilities the longer it's
running - which is
^■^^■^^^^^ a neat idea, and
one I haven't run
into before.
This program
really can be
recommended for
the tech4ieads out
there, i suspect,
though, that many
people will take
one look at the
length of the tutorial fife and run
screaming back to whatever they
were using before. So, in terms of
features this program deserves a
Proeram rat I n£ 10/10
while for userfriendliness, I have to
give It just
Program rating 3/10
ICALC
Rsh dbh 742
If you've ever been frustrated
because the calculator utility
supplied by Commodore isn't
powerful enough for you. Icatc is
what you need. This is a she 1 1 -based
calculator which takes such a range
of commar>ds that it is virtually an
interpreter for a mathematical
programming languc^e.
icaic IS as simple or as complex
to use as you want ithat was a pun.
inctOentally: the program can even
handle imaginary numt>ers). Just
typing in '3'^6' will give you the value
of three to the power sin (729), but
you can also type lines like
"Sum(n=l,100,l/n)'. which would
compute 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... *
1/100. Or how about 'simfred =
45)'. which would assign rhe value
45 to the variable fred' and also
output sin(45)^
Hiere are even more features
available: these are listed in the
advanced user guide, and include the
facility to wor1< in any base from 2 to
35: usec-selec table decimal
precision: Booiean operators: arrays:
and controhflow constructs such as
if-eise, while-ioop and do-while- loo p.
Llser-defmed functions are
supporied, and the program has a
wide range of bu^ltnn mathematical
functions and constants.
To use the program to its fullest
aMir^A ^HOPPFD m i^^irv ?? m fvhoiiady lOOt
''W^.BftWA'N
exlem. you can create a list of
commands and calculations in a text
file and then ask Icalc to process The
file. This is where the control
stnjctures. an^ays and so on will
feally come in useful, and should
mean that the program can cope with
just about any malhemai^cal problem
you Thro* at It.
Ovorallp Icaic is a useful tooL and
ofcrtainly one that any programmer,
Btudem or scientist should have
around. \t can be obtained from your
usual fjsh disk supplier, or can also
tie found in the Amiga Shopper
Shareware Collection Volume One.
as featured in last months issue.
Program rating 9/10
MEGAED
Psh disk 743
Me^dEd IS an extremely powerful text
editor placed in the
public domain by ^^^^^^^^"
Wouter van
Ooftmerssen (or, as
he likes to be
known. $#%!). It's
one of Ihe mo5t fully-
featured programs of
its Hind that I've
seen, and can
certainly be ^^^^^^^^
recom mended if
you'ro on ths look-out for something
mor« than just a basic text editor.
Its features are biased towanjs
programmers, but even if you're not
a cooe-head. you may weii find that it
does some other tasks more easily
than your normal word processor.
Features include the following;
• A macro programming language.
Megaftf supports its own macro
language and also has an ARexx
port, so you can control it from other
proftrams. Macro commands exist to
oojusE ^DDui anyinmg you couKl
want, from setting default text paths
through sorting text to executfng a
DOS command.
• Database functions. If you import
records from a database into
MegaEd. you can perform various
funcUofiaon them. First, it s possible
to easily acTine the field scparntor -
so it doesn't matter whether your
database prefers to separate fields
wUii u Lumma. a colui] or even &
3Ulng of characters-
Then you can 5ort the records by
any of the fields, print them as labels
^B3ch field on a different line), pnnt
them in nicely tabulated form (either
specifying a wkfth for each field or
lenmg me pfogram work it out tor
Itself), delete a field or whatever.
Th^re is also a 'make index
reference function, which provides
simpJe cross-referencing facilities.
For example, let's say that you have
the following data:
Frad, 3, 7. 4
ilm, 7, 9
Joe, 3, 9
Then the program would save a
like this:
ist
3
Fred
Joe
4
Fred
7
Fred
Jim
9
Jim
Joe
'There's no excuse
for going back to
the horrible days
of fhe Specfrumi"
(Actually, come to think of it. I can't
really work out a good use for this,
but I'm sure someone wilL..)
• Auto-lrKlentatlon. You specify the
words or characters whhCh should
Start and end indentation, and the
program will do the rest. For
instance, you
^^^^^^^^^ would specify ( and
} as start and end
indentation marks
respectively if you
were programming
in C, while begin'
and 'end' would be
sensible mark
suggestions for
programmers
using Pascal.
• Multiple block support. This is
one of the few programs which allow
multiple blocks to be selected. So if
you are interested only in certain
parts of a file, just mark all the
relevant passages as blocks and
select Save Blocks from ihe Edit
menu. This goes for copying, pasting
and deleting blocks, too.
As ever, there are some things about
MogoEdXUax aren't perfect. Frrst -
way through the file' display would
help. Secondly, the font which the
program uses doesn^t display
ascenders and descenders property.
There's no excuse for going back to
the horrible days of the Spectrum!
And finally. MegaEd '*i\\\ only cof>e
with fiies of up to about 70K in size.
'tbi' command. It takes a tab-
delimited file as input and produces
a neat table as output - to screen,
pnnter or as an IFF file which can
then be read into another program.
IFF format is the mosi useful, as any
font can be used, and front and back
pen colours can be selected.
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ATblls a utility for turuiuUing text tables, based on the UMX tbl' command
That's probably tme for most
programming tasks, but loads of text
files are larger than this - and
MegaEd fs good enough that you'll
find you want to use it for general
processing as well as program mtng.
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performlrig complex calculations - Including 'imaginary' numbers
and most importandy - there is no
graphical representatton of how far
down a file you are - that is» there's
no scroll bar ithe documentation
claims (hat there's a way of making
one appear, but it didn't work for
me). When you're working on a
massive program, or even a text file,
you really need to know whereabouts
you are - even a simple 'x% of the
But this IS still a great [KOgram.
It has an attractive user inierface.
and can be highly recommended.
Program rating 9/10
ATBL
Rsh dish 746
ATbi IS a table-fofmatting utility by
Denis Gour>elle based on the UNIX
The program is run from the
Shell, and takes as parameters the
Input file name, the format to output
In. and an optional file name for
output irf no output name is given,
data wilL just be displayed on screen
lor text and IFF modes).
The actual formatting of the table
IS controlled by parameters in the
text file. These are lines beginning
^ith a period {'.']. and a fairly wide
range of formatting options is
catered for. For example, you can
specify whether eacfi column should
be centred, left- or right aligned; what
horizontal and vertical divtdifig lines
should look like; what font is to be
used: what column wrdth should be
used; and so on.
1 guess this program is of limited
use to many people. But if you've
large Quantities of data v/hich needs
to be presented in tabular form, it
could save hours of fiddling about.
Program rating 7/10
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Epoch is a compact little address book and calendar program. Unfortunately*
lt'9 not fcally oaay enough te use to bo highly recommended
The program is launched from
the Shell, and takes a maximum of
four parameters. The easiest way to
use it IS just to tell it how many lines
per page your pnnter wiff take, what
the name of the input file is and
whatever you want to call the
processed result.
It then creates two new fiieSn one
of which contains the odd pages, the
other the evens. So you pnm out ttie
odds, lake the paper, turn t\ over and
print out the evens. SimpleT If you
want to know how much paper you'll
be using, the "-S" flag just gives a
summary of paper usage without
actually creating the files.
If your document already has
form-feed characters in place (many
documentation files
are already ^^^^^^^^
formatted, and
altering this means
that indexes aren't
accurate), that's no
pfoDlem - Paperttack!
will use them, rather
than splitting up the
pages itself.
And thatn really,
is that. No fuss, no
mess, just output which is friendlier
to the environment and easier on
your wallet.
Program rating 9/10
CFX
n$h dl»h 750
And straight after Paper&acft^ comes
CFX. another program from Bob Rye.
This is another freeware program,
and is a great - and powerful - file
"Both CFX and
Paperback! have
found their way on
to my hard drive"
type finder. Have you ever
downloaded a file from a bulletin
board and not known how it was
compressed? Or wanted to know
where all your IFF files are on your
hard disk? CFX will do all of this for
you and more.
Although the program must be
launched from the Shell, there is an
option (-r) which lets you use a
standard Workbench Requester to
find the directories that you wish to
examine. Basically, you select a Ti\G.
directory or disk and set the program
running. It will report back on the
filetype of each file, along with file
size, fiags. and even some additional
information - for example, IFFs have
their dimensions and number of
bttplanes listed-
^^^^^^^^^ CFX can work
on just one
directory or will
recursively
examine up to 48
sub-direc tones.
You can ask it to
list specific file
types - all IFf s,
say - or to
describe all files-
It knows a wide range of file types:
on my hard drive there were very few
that it reported as "unknown type',
other than program-specific ones.
Bob Rye is clearly a programmer
who doesnH waste his time
producing esotenc utilities that
maybe half a dozen people in the
world will want. Both CFX and
Paperback! have already found their
way strajght on to my hard drive, and
both have been extensively used.
Software Expressions
disk U160
LvGf wondnrga how some
people create superb-
looking iogOB and screen
KiUflBs, wtiiKj the rest or
UQ« »re fitill struggling
away with the most basic
TuncTione oT DeiuvQ Patni
HI? Wq[\. [htfi disk could prove to be
the solution. The tutor program is
called Gator's Graphic Gallery, and
hn b9on crcoted by d guy called
M^rt^rt fidurnarvi Essentially, it's a
senes of images along with
instructions on how they were
created. Martin is German, so some
of his English isn't perfect, but the
Instructions are still easy enough to
follow - and the graphics that he
explains are stunning^
Gator's Graphic Galtory shows you
itep-by-ttep how to use DPairtt to
create pictures like thit.
F^^*
The program is supplied on a
self-booting disk, and paging through
the instructions is a simple matter of
httting the right and left mouse
buttons. Alternatively, you can use
the numeric keypad to move to a
specific page - there are 33 in all.
The illustrations cover such
things as logos, electronic -looking
Doxes and the like. The Images
are predominancy high-tech.
which comes as no surpnse
when you take a took at what
Manin'5 Involved m - he seems
to have been a member of just
about every Amiga demo crew
you've ever heard ol\
My only real complaint with
th*s disk is that sometimes
Martin seems to skip over some of
the steps involved in a particular
graphic's creation. Tm sure that
these steps were obvious enough to
him. but to those of us with a little
less drawing talent, It can take a
while to work out Just
what's going on.
Nevertheless, if you
persevere then it
usually pays offT
I'd recommend
this disk to anyone
who wants to get just
a little bit more out of
DPamt - and also to
anyone who just
...or any style of hlgti-tcch
illustration that takes your fancy
wants to see the very best In Amiga-
created demO'Style artistry.
Value for money 10/10
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE Hi O FEBRUARY 1993 1 Aft
!mMm
They can certamly both be highly
recommended.
Program rating 9/10
Rsh disk 750
Hans Peter Guenther has mfUen this
fjIc-sUiuuinti proB/am which will
Suntfav 1 Hovenbcr 1?9
started when your Amiga (s booted
up - either by entering Us name m
your start up- sequence or by putting it
in the WBSiartup drawer if you're
funnfng Workbench 2.0. After that^
both address book and calendar can
be activated by clicking on the
window 10 make it active and then
either hitting Amiga-C or A, or by
C^lvnilar
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The calendar pari of Epoch Is reasonable - but suffers froin a rather odd
method of entering new data, which is shared by the address book section
remove comments from any program
language source code - os long as a
configuration file caIsIs or you create
one yourself. The program's default
is C, hut It ships with configuration
filoa for ti couple of oUici Idiigudges'
such as DOS anri Shell configuration
scripts. It would aJeo be easy to wnte
configuration files for programming
languages such as Pascal (typically
the cunfig file only fias iwu or three
linGG, which ap?!rnbe comment
Uciiiiiiungciidrd'^tersj.
Whether removing comments is
'A Good Thing' or not is debatatjie.
Sure, it reduces compilatron lime
quite raaicallyn but on the other hand
an uncommenled file in something
like C might as wetl be written in
MoflJdn unitrss lib your own program
- and oven then, (ifter a coupfe of
months you d have no idea why you
wrote half the stuff you did. Still, for
those who want to do this to their
files, Srr^p/r works fast, and didn't
make ar^y errors on the files I tested.
The documentation can be difficult to
follow. Out there's no real problem:
tho oplions are sp fgw that it'a easy
tfi wfirU out by trial and error.
One word of warning: the way the
program copes with multiple source
fii©e means that if you forget to
spedfy an output file, your lasl
source file will lif* overwritten wilh
the prugrdm 5 output. So back up
your Hies before you start!
Program rating 7/10
l«xt that you want to find and hit the
search button, without having to go
into any special mode. Some people
may see the benefit in this; me, I
just thfnk that it's an odd way of
doing things.
The calendar section of the
program shares the same odd data
entry system - having to hit Edit'
before you type in any new
information. It allows you to view a
month at a time< and any dates with
rnformation entered for them have a
number displayed, which gives the
number of entnes. It's adequate, but
that's about all - which is a shame,
really, because the concept of a
combined address book and
calendar, perfiaps with a facility for
combining data from the two so that,
for instance, entenng "^Lunch with
Dave" will check and pull up Dave's
address details, is very appealing.
The thing that really makes me a
little cautious about the whole thing
is that Jack starts his doc file with
the words "This programme Isic) is a
Test version, meaning that I am
_J I .!_ ! 1 1. _1 f l.._l.
Now this IS more hke it! BuddBase I is a powerful, easy-to-use database with
an attractive user interface. And presumably this Is Just the Hrst version...
EPOCH
NQ5 Disk UT26
QXKtf i!> a cuHimimU dddie^s Dock
and calendar written t>y Jack
Pritchard. It appears as a tiny window
when first run, and is designed to be
selecting the name from the pull-
down menu.
The address
book Is fairly "^^^^^
standard, and will
allow you to have up
to 284 records, each
containing a
maximum of seven
lines of tent. Oddly,
there \s no fieTd for a
postcode - wliich is
aomethifig of s ^^^^^..^^
surprise for a
program which was written in the UK,
\Vb diso not pamculariy easy to
use. To enter a new record, you must
remember to hit the 'Edit' button first
- otherwise tent will apoear m the
fields but will not be remembered.
This IS less than intuitive - I tried lo
use the program without using the
Uoc file (as many oeopie would) and
entered data for a good five minutes
before I realised that something was
wrong. The reason tor this somewhat
convoluted method of tent entry
seems to be that it makes searching
for a record easier - jUst type in the
"this convoluted
method,,, makes
searching for a
record easier"
putting It into the public domain at
this stage to see what son of
response I get to
^^^^^^■^ it." Fine, but
personally there's
no way rm go*ng
to trust my
address book data
to a program
which isn't the
finished thing, and
which may crash
^^^^^^^^^ without warning. If
you disagree,
you're a braver man or woman than
me. Gunga Din.
Program rating,............„.....4/10
POOLS-TOOLS
NBS Disk U725
Pools Toois IS a pools predictor and
perm checker. It's mouse-driven,
which means that it should be easier
to use - and faster - than those
programs which force you to type »n
team names every week to make
your predictions.
The programs come on an auto-
booting disk, which requires 1Mb of
RAM to run, Booijng up produces a
Simple menu - perm check, the
prediction program or instructions.
The perm checking program
assunrtes that you're using a plan
which has been provided or which
you're made up youiseif - it's
possible to write your own perm plan
us»ng a word processor. Details are
included m the documentation, and it
all seems fairly simple. (I'm a horses
man myself, so the intricacies of the
pools are a mystery to me..,)
The other program on the disk is
a prediction utility - although just
how accurate this is likely to be is
open to debate: one of the options
just gets the program to produce
random numbers! However, if you
want a slightly more probabilistic
approach you can enter the results
from previous weeks, and the
predictor will use these results to
produce suggested pools numbers.
If you like the program you can
send £4.50 to the author. Paul
Moriey. in return for which you will
receive Dividend-Master, an
upgraded version of the two
programs with a numt)er of extra
features which are disabled in the PD
versions - including printing
functions, a perm calculator,
predjction based on teams' recent
form, and the ability to save your
default settings-
Poois Tools is unlikely to make
you a millionaire next Saturday, but
you might find it fun to try - and d's
almost certain that, if you use it to
check next Saturday's pools without
puttrng any nr>oney on. you'll fir>d that
It would have cleaned up...
Progf a m rating 7/10
BUDDBASE I
Deja Vu dbk L/28
BudtJB'ise I IS a database written in
AMOS by John Brain, and is disk
based - so even if you've only got a
512K Amiga you should be able to
store a decent number of records.
This program really was a pieasant
suTpnse: too often AMOS databases
are simple, primitively written aOairs
with no real power, but BuddBase
gives the impression of being a well-
wriUen. well thought-out package.
The user interface is an
attractive gfeyscale 3D-type affair,
and every button clicks down with a
tiny red 'Ijght' to show what you've
selected. The program comes with a
sampie database to illustrate how to
use the features - which are ail
totally intuitive anyway.
There are some limitations
imposed, the most restnctmg of
which »s the choice of disk dnve to
use for stonng data - only DHO: and
DFO: are supported so if. like me.
you use OHl: fo* your fiJes you'll
have to keep moving the database to
1 AH AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1 993
?^m.w^
and from DHO: every lime you want
to use it. I guess that most people
won't find this a probJem, though.
Creeling a new database is easy;
you can have up lo IS fields per
recordn although there's no way lo
add new fields later. So, it would be
prudent to make a couple of
'dummir" fields in
tasB you warn lo ^^^^"^^^^^^
CKpnnd Ihe data
Stored later. The
layout of the
database on-screen
is fairly limited -
and each field can
only contain 60
characters - but
again. a& long as
"other database
creators would do
well to take a
look at ir
you plan your
database wefi. this shouldn't be too
much of a problem.
Once you have added some data,
you're lively to want to sort and find
Individual records. In both cases, the
procedure is simple but powerful.
You can sort by texi or number, on
any field, and the Rnd function
allows you to search for any text
within a field, or any number. Simple
mathematical operators such as <
and >= are provided enabling you to
find a range of values.
Really. BuddBase is an
impressive program. Some of the
operatfons are a little slow wtien
performed on a floppy-based
database, but
^^^^^^^^ pulling the
database on hard
d»sK speeds things
up considerably.
Much thought has
clearly gone into the
user interface and
ease of use of this
program, and other
database creators
would do well to
take a look at it when they're writing
theif own programs.
All in all, BuddBase t is a good
example of what can be done in
AMOS, and well worth considering if
you're looking for a PD database: I
can't wart for BuddBase ffl
Program rating 9/10
1'
I
There are two mam ways to get hoW of Amtga PD and shareware: from a buHeiin
boanj or from a PD library.
Tne advan[age of usmg a CHJlleim board ts that often the latest software is
uploaded as soon as it's available- On the down skle, you need a modem to
ronneci. and you'll have to pay prx)ne ctiafges (and sometimes a oonoection fee
to the bulletin board as well).
There are a growing number of buMin boards with a wide range of Amiga
software available for downk)ad. Check out 01-for Amiga {071 377 1358) and the
Cheam Amiga Bulletin Board (081 644 S714). Another good option is pining CIX
(ihe Compuhnk Infonnaiion exchange). wh»ch rwt onJy has Amiga software but also
contains conferer>ce and file areas on a wide range of subjects, from politics to
scuba diving, biking to Science Fiction. Many of the Amiga Shopper writers have
accounts on CIX. so you can gel first-hand advice on your problems- too. For more
details, call CIX on 081 390 S446 ivoice) or 081 390 1255 imodemj.
If you don't want to use a bulletin board, the other way to get PD software IS
fn>m a PD house. Many advertise tn Am^a Shopper, and you'll frnd a
comprehensive list of names and addresses at the end of th»s artcle. Expect to
pay between 99d and about £2.50 per dis*^ - there's often a discount if you buy in
bulk. loo. As for the difference t>etween the oomp^ites which charge 99p and
those which charge £2.50 - vre\\. xty both types. There are bnlliant. totally
professional PD houses which charge less than a quid, and there are totally
irKompelenl (d4S>organLsat>ons whtch charge nx)re than twice that.
Amiga nuts United
1€Q Dale Valley Road
Hollybrook
Southampton
AMOS PD
1 Penmynydd Road
Penlan
Swansea
SA5 7EH
Anglia PDL
115 Ranelagh
Felixstowe
Suffolk
IPll 7HU
" 0394 283494
BLitterchlpa
Cliffe House
Primrose Street
Kelghley
BD21 4NN
w 0535 667469
Crazy Joe's
145 Effingham Street
Rothertiam
South Yorks
S65 IBL
• 0709 829286
Dertraji PD
36 Bodelwyddan Ave
Old Co^wyn
Clwyd LL29 9NP
B 0492 515981
Deja Vu
7 Hollinbrook
Beech Hill
WifianWN6 7SG
- 0942 495261
Essex Computer Systems
118 Middle Crockerford
Bdsildon
Essex
SS16 4JA
George Thompson Services
Cucumber Hall Farm
Cucumber Lane
Essendon
Herts
AL9 6JQ
w 0707 664 654
PO BOX 1309
London
N2 2LJT
w 081 346 0050
NBS
1 Chain Lane
Newport
Isle Of Wight P030 5QA
« 0983 529594
PDSoft
1 Bryant Ave
Souihend-on-Sea
Essex
SSI 2YD
» 0702 466933
P entire PD
10a Hag Hill Lane
Taplow
Maidenhead
Berks SL6 OJH
tt 0628 666641
RIverdene PDL
30a School Road
Tllehiirst
Reading
Berkshire RG3 SAN
f 0734 452416
Telocan Computer Services
Hands worth Road
Blackpool FY5 ISB
tt 0253 22296
Sector 16
160 HoUow Way
Cowley
Oxford
tr 0865 774472
Severrteen Bit Software
PO BOX 97
Wakefield
West Yorks
WFllXX
n 0924 366982
Software Expressions
Unit 4
44 Beau ley Road
Sout^ville
Bristol BS3 IPY
IT 0272 639593
SoftvUle
Unit 5. StratfieJd Park
Elettra Avenue
Watenooville
Hants P07 7XN
« 0705 266509
Startronlcs
4 Arnold Drive
Droylsden
Manchester M35 6RE
ff 061 370 9115
Vally PO
P0B0X15
Peteriee
Co Durtiam 5R8 1N2
« 091-587 1195
Virus Free PD
31 Farnngdon Road
Swindon
Wiltshire SNl 5AR
« 0793 512321
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 33 • FEBRUARY 1993 1 AT
HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE • HARDWARE
WBlconne to the Amiga Shopper Buyer's Guide, your regubr guide to whales hot
and what's not In the Amtga marhet place^ It* designed a& a slmple-to-UH yet
comprehensive guide which will help you to make the right buying decisions. It
may not lr>clude each artd every pri>duct ever produced for the Amigit (thai would
take up virtually the whole o1 Amiga Shoppe/^). but you can resV assured that all
majot brands and modeFs are here.
The euyer's Guide wkIL run each and every month and as new products are released
and others discontinued, we II be updating it accordingly. Thks month we bring you what
Is posftlbly the most comprehensive guide to hardware lor the Amiga owner. Next nKMith
we'll be listing Amiga software...
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Pnceuot SpeedlMHz) Had DMt (Mb) Roffiei
A600
£299 IMQ
2Mb
4Mb
68000 7
No
IfBaOn
Replacerr^ent for oom dlscoolknued A500 Plus |
A60WD
£499 1Mb
2Mb
4Mb
68000 7
20
IjiBSOk
A600 wfth buHt'4n 20Mb IDG
A1500
£999 1Mb
1Mb
9 Mb
68000 7
No
2^880^
More e^ipandable tban A500
A2000HD
£1299 1Mb
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9 Mb
66000 7
40
iisaoit
Exactty the tmm m A1500, but rniw
krKhjdfls hard dbk
A2500
LY'-r/ 1 Mb
1Mb
9 Mb
68020 16
40
ixsaoh
Same as A2000HD. but cornes witb processor card
A3000
£31S0 2Mb
2Mb
16Mb
GB030 16/25
SO/100
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52
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£399
A600
50/110
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A590
Commotiore
£399
A500
20
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£489
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Third Coait
£599
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40
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NoviaSOi
Power Comouling
£399
ASOO
20/30
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Power Compulkig
£499
ASOO
50/100
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Third Coas;
£399
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40
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Protar
£299
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£299
A1500-*
40-300
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Trflogk:
£350
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46
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WoraSync2000
Surface UK
£450
A1500-*
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A2091-40
£200
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40
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£350
A1500-*
40
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Omega Protect*
£690
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ss
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8
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Pr>Mer Cornputi^
£U99
SCSI
128
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Omega Projects
£600
SCSI
150
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£55
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Yes
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SJHca Systems
£60
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5 1/4' 880K
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£100
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Evevham M>cfos
£55
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Yes
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Curruvu
£75
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3A10
Golden image
£65
Any
3 1/2" S80K
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4*«*
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ACHD
AppNed Englneef1r«
£140
Anr
3 ^2" 1.62 Mb
No
8
Iniemal2000
Power CompiiUng
150
AISOO^
3 1/2" n«OK
No
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DualDrive
Power Computing
£120
»mi
3 1/2" auBBOK
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0X2.8
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DlglEdl Mmonlc^
£650
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31/2"
20 Mb
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:. no(M)calDisk
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SUftace UK
£196
A500
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3 Mb
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£23
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£100
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1.5 Mb
TmpOwx
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V2000
Vlrtt
£104
A500
2Mb
TrapDoor
-
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Zvdec
£79
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TragDoor
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CPO
£300
A600
4Mb
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AB*K0m
£35
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TrapOow
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£155
A900
LB Mb
TrapDoor
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Corten
£199
ASOO
2Mb
BMb
Yes
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SMca
£159
A1500 *
2Mb
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£159
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2Mb
BMb
Cam
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AdRAM3000
£179
AISOO-^
2Mb
SNb
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Corten
£175
A1500-*
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Pike
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Oniega PiDjects
£850
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68030
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66881
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£M
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68882
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£1449
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PRODUCTS
MO/SOO
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68040
28 MHz
a Mb
68882
14
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16 W
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£1249
A3000
68040
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£599
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66030
25MH7
IGMb
68B81
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£173
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6800016
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VXL30
ZCLLtd
£409
A500
68030
25MH2
8Mb
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3000/40
Marcam
£1937
A1500-*
68040
50Mhi
32 MO
Yes
44*4*
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silica
£1799
A1500->
68030
SOMHi
32Mb
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3lrca
£1999
A3O00
6Rn40
28MH2
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68030
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4PMb
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SoJ^ State
£595
ASOO
6B020
25 MHz
16Mb
Yes
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5ottd5uto
£1162
A1500-.
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A2630
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£1099
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68030
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26MH1
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4Mb
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www
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Oniega PifulucTs
£549
A1500
68030
50MHf
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Commodora
£r4A
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68040
40MHE
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1800
A500
68030
4OMH7
8Mb
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20
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£199
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£140
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£130
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBRUARY 1993 | MA
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With aH this computing power at
your fingertips 111 bet you're
itching to explore the many
possibilities on offer. Whether
you're a budding artist,
composer, musician,
business person, programmer, or
h are completely new to the
machine, what you need is expert
advice on how to get started.
You need the Amiga Format
Complete Beginner's Guide -a
i guide that will show you how to
f get the most from your Amiga.
From the makers of the world's best computer magazine
V:
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PRODUCTS
AB802
Marcam
£139
Rfl02FWC
Marram
£178
Ae802&vm
Msrc^ni
£499
Asaoe
Matcam
£499
OSTGoM
Third CmM
£550
VkteoCenTre2
G2
£1170
VkteoCentraa
G2
£1999
VkleoMastef VM-2
Power Dynpulmg
£799
VMewwnp &100
SMca
£1SOO
ImageMasief
Nenki
£1150
PfoGon
&?rdon HarwDod
£130
COIOUG CARDS
Uodd
Supplier
MachkM
RembfanOl
Power Compuiin^
A1500-*
AVWeol2
CheclonBtfl
AISOCM
AVkleo24
ChecKmaie
A1500-*
HAM€
Checkmate
A500
DCTV
SJIrca
A500
GVP IV^24
SHka
AISOO-^
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ACS
A1500-*
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TOOT* aim
Model
Supplier
Prfca
Podslal PT 3030
HB Matkeling
£179
Gonmnr
O0M
£130
Cherry Mk4
Ctterry
£^0
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Model
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Pr*ce
200
Criiren
£250
240C
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£350
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NEC
n'M
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£292
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£^0
swma4
Cltl»n
£42S
U!flV>
Ep&or
£269
LQ40a
EfMon
£263
LQ550
Epson
£375
LC2no
Star
£304
LC24
Star
£304
ML380
OM
£386
UlSCELUHEOm iJUnWUE
M«M
Suppler
ICD WickBacki
Silica Syslcms
RMK«y
SJIIca SyrtVfM
GoideoGQte
Silica Syslems
I/O Port
SwitchSoft
Sound Enrvarw
Omoga Projects
Klduwltch
Omega PtciJ«c|»
No
Yes
Yes
Ha
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Vm
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No
Price
£1499
£299
£599
£299
£499
£1799
£1400
No
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No
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vm
Yea
Yes
Ym
No
Ym
Yes
Yes
Yw
Vm
Yes
Vm
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£37
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• SUPPLIER LIST • SUPPLIER LIST • SUPPLIER LIST •
ACS
App.
engineering
ASAP
Ashcom
Bytes
& Pieces
Checkmate
Digital Lid
CiUien
Commodore
Cortex
Cumdna
031 &57 4242
0101 214 241
OOGO
0724280222
0530 411485
0253 734218
071923 0658
0695 72G21
0628 770088
051 236 0480
0483 503121
Dole I
Electronics
Digital
Micronics
EPO
Epson UK
Evesham
Micros
G2 Video
Systems
Gasteir^er
Goiden Image
0782 744707
0101 619 431
8301
0602 B41640
0442 61144
0386 765500
0252 737151
081 365 1151
081 518 7373
Gordon
Hanwood
HB Marketing
JCL Business
Systems
Marcam Ltd
MicroDeal
Naksha UK
NEC
Neriki
New
Dimensions
OKI
0773 836781
Omega
0702 466933
SMG
0274 562999
Projects
Solid
0933 650677
0753 686000
Pandaal
0234 855666
Stale Leisure
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0892 518181
Ma^^leting
Star
0494 471111
Power
0234 273000
Surface UK
081 566 6677
0604 790466
Com pull nfi
Switchsoft
0325 464423
0726 6S020
Protar
0923 54133
Third Coast
0257472444
0925 56398
Rom bo
0506 414631
Technologies
1 *
081 993 9831
SA&H
010 40 0511
Trilogic
0274 678062
Oai 900 1806
551701
Virgo
0276 676308
0291 690933
Silica
081 309 1111
WTS
0582 491949
Systems
Electronics
¥
0753 31292
2CL Ud ,
0543 251275
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 22 • FEBftUARY 1993
151
SAFE SHOPPI
Whether buying over the phone or at a local store,
here^s our advice on how to get v/hat you wanf
BUYING IN PERSON
• Where txissible, always test any
software and hardware m the shop
before taking it home, lo make sure
tnat II works oropefly.
• Make sure you have all the
necessary leads, rnanuals or other
accessones you need,
• Don't forget 10 Keep your feceipl.
BUYING BY PHONE
• Be as clear as possible when
stating what you want to buy. Make
sure you confirm all the technical
details of what you are t>uying. Some
things to bear in mind are version
numbers, memory requirements,
other required hardware or software
and compatiDiiity with your particular
model of Amiga (that is, make sure
you know which version of Kick start
you have).
• Check Ihe price you are asked to
pay. and make sure that it's the
same as the price advertised.
• Check that what you are ordenng
Is actually rn stock.
• Check when and how the article
will be delivered, and that any entra
charges are as staled on the advert.
• Make a note of the date and lime
when you order the product.
BUYING BY POST
As with buying by phone h you should
clearly state exactly what it is you
are buying, at what price (refer to the
magazine, page and issue number
where it's advertised) and give any
relevant information about your
system sel-up where necessary. You
Should also make sure you keep
copies of all correspondence both to
and from the company concerned.
MAKING RETURNS
Whichever method you buy by. you
are entitled to return a product if it
fails to meet any one of the following
three criteria:
A CHECK LIST FOR
MAIL ORDER BUYING
1 Make sure you know exactly what you want. Draw up a ch«i£kJlst of tho
tpMWeAtlonft you are looking for and what you want It to b« able to do.
Cneck with the suppUers that thejr product matches your list,
2 Win the product you have In mind work with your existing set-up, and
anything el&e you are plannliu: to buy?
3 Can you »«o a ilomonstrfltlon? Many products are on dJsplay at computir
shows around ths country.
4 Art th«fO any hidden extriia? Does Ft need 1Mb to run. or a hard disk?
5 What technical support I* provided by the supplier? Doos the
manufflcturgf offer aftor-Diiios odvlccT Choch before you buy.
# Ch—fc Hie guarantee terma. How long Is the free warranty? What does It
offsr?
7 Draw up a iist of th^M details and mahs them a condition of your order.
ft Chaek thi» priee and dallvery details when you order, aod make a note of
them,
O Nota down when you placed the order and who you spoils to,
1 When It arrives, ohaci^ everything carefully. If anything is missing, don^t
u«« tlw fffOduct at ah - contact the supplier, if It doaan't work, make tha
obvious cheoits such as the fuse. If H stMl doesn't work don't try to fix tt -
contact the supplier.
• The goods must be of
'merchantable quality',
• The goods must be as described',
• The goods must be tn for the
purpose for wfifch ihey were sold.
If ihey fail to salisN any or all of the
criteria^ then you are then entitled to:
• Return them for a refund.
• Receive compensation for part of
the value.
• Gel a replacement or free repair.
When returning anything, ensure that
you have proof of purchase and that
you return the item as soon as
possible after receiving ii. For this
reason it is important that you check
the hardware or software as soon as
it is delivered to make sure
everything you ordered is there and
worths as It is supposed lo.
HOW TO PAY
Paying by credit card Is the most
sensible way, whether buying in
person, by post or on ihe phone,
because you may be able to claim
the money from the credit card
company even if the firm you ordered
from has gone bust or refuses to
heip sort out your problem.
Otherwise, you should pay by
crossed cheque or postal order -
never send coins or notes through
the mall,
GETTING REPAIRS
Always check the conditions of the
guarantee, and servicing and
replacement policy, so that you know
what level of support to expect.
Always fill in and return warranty
cards as soon as possible, and
make sure that you are aware of all
the conditions contained In the
guarantee.
BUYING PD
Even though PD software is reiaiiveiy
inexpensive, you should Sliii apply
the guidelines set out above, making
sure that you confirm all orders as
clearly as possible.
Shopping around is still
important when buying PD because
different houses charge different
prices for the same disks. There is
no set pncing structure for djsks, but
bear in mind that PD houses are, in
theory, supposed to be non-profit
making operations, f^
ADVERTISERS INDEX
1st Computer Centre (Leeds) 50. 51
16 Bit Centre 80
AngliaPD 138
ArnorLld 96
Artworks 74
BCS 104,105
Bilcon Devices IBC
Cammac Developments 94
CO Enterprises 94
Classic Software 120
Coombe Valley Software 77
Commonside Hardware Services .87
Crazy Joe's 138
Crysy Concepts 120
Delta Pi 30
Diamond Computer
Supplies 142-144
Oigila International IFC. 9
Direct Computer Supplies 94
Dynamile 128-131
Europress Software 38-39
Evesham Micros 136-137
Express PD 120
Fonlshop 74
Futureworld 59-61
Gaslelner Tectinologies 93
Grapevine « 30
Graphic Assembly 74
HarwooOs 99,114-117
HB Marketing 77
Hobbyte 100-101
Home Based Business 87
ICPUG 120
Indi 54-55,59
International Comp Show 33
Kosmos Software 74
LCL 77
Merlin OBC
Millenium Micros 74
MJC Supplies 66
New Horizon Computers 1 7
Omega Projects 112
PDSolt 91
Ptioenix 42,43
Phoenix Services 94
Power Computing 46. 47
Power Point Communications 77
Silica Systems 125,135,153
Snap Computer Supplies 85
Sofistore 67
Software Demons 4
South Lines PD 120
Switchsoft 94
Transmedia Distribution 88
Trilogic 64.65
Ursa Software 87
Vortex 20
Weserve 6
While Knight Technology 69
WTS Electronics 85.108,109
York Electronics 120
152
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AMJGA SHOPPER •ISSUE 22 •FEBRUARY 1993
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